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Oulipo

Oulipo is a funny word that stands for "Ouvroir de littérature potentielle" which means Workshop for Potential Literature. It is a group of people who like to write and play with words in different ways. Imagine your box of toys, and you have a bunch of blocks and shapes, and you can build different things with them like a castle or a car. Oulipo is like that, but with words! They like to create new stories, poems, and even songs by changing the rules of language. For example, they might say "you can only use words that start with the letter 'A' to make a story." This makes them think in new and interesting ways and helps them come up with innovative and fun ideas. They also like to experiment with different structures like a palindrome, which is a word or a phrase that reads the same way backward or forward. It sounds like a lot of fun, doesn't it?
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