Project reduces classic works to text messagesLook, if you can't be bothered reading classic literature (or anything) the way it was meant to be read, then just don't.
"Romeo, Romeo -- wher4 Rt thou Romeo?"
It could be the future of Shakespeare.
Dot mobile, a British mobile phone service aimed at students, says it plans to condense classic works of literature into SMS text messages. The company claims the service will be a valuable resource for studying for exams.
Academic purists will be horrified. Hamlet's famous query, "To be or not to be, that is the question," becomes "2b? Nt2b? ???"
John Milton's epic poem "Paradise Lost" begins "devl kikd outa hevn coz jelus of jesus&strts war." ("The devil is kicked out of heaven because he is jealous of Jesus and starts a war.")
Thursday, November 17, 2005
This, Too, Is Just Wrong
Granted, I hate "texting" to begin with (and the fact that the word "text" has become a verb), but this is just vile:
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