One-syllable article

A one-syllable article (Chinese: 同音文章; pinyin: Tóngyīn wénzhāng) is a type of constrained writing found in Chinese literature. It takes advantage of the large number of homophones in the Chinese language, particularly when writing in Classical Chinese due to historic sound changes. While the characters used in a one-syllable article have many different meanings, they are all pronounced as the same syllable, although not with the same tone. Therefore, a one-syllable article is comprehensible in writing but becomes an incomprehensible tongue twister when read aloud, especially in Mandarin Chinese pronunciation. In other regional pronunciations, not all syllables may sound alike.

Notable examples
gollark: Print a few million lines of colored text perhaps?
gollark: What would a good benchmark be?
gollark: Sure, why not.
gollark: If you want to implement *loads* of features, it may make sense to just call into lua from another language, but that is probably unnecessary.
gollark: I mean, on the other hand, it's probably much slower than just using a library.

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