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deadparrot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-17-05 11:46 PM
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Beep. It's from Hamlet. 2B? NT2B?=???
LONDON (Reuters) - Woe un2mnkind! The text message is trying to summarise the great poet John Milton and a respected academic thinks this may be a smart new way to teach literature.

A company offering mobile phones to students has hired Professor John Sutherland, professor emeritus of English Literature at University College London, to offer subscribers text message summaries and quotes from literary classics.

The hope is that messages in the truncated shorthand of mobile phones will help make great literature more accessible.

"We are confident that our version of 'text' books will genuinely help thousands of students remember key plots and quotes, and raise up educational standards rather than decrease levels of literacy," the company, Dot Mobile, said in a press release.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20051116/od_uk_nm/oukoe_uk_life_britain_text
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Redstone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-18-05 12:07 AM
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1. I saw that too. It's utterly revolting.
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NMMNG Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-18-05 12:09 AM
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2. Yeah, raise educational standards by dumbing literature down
That makes sense :crazy:.
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