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 soliloquy, “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.)