[etni] Literary texts no more?
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- Date: Sun, 20 Nov 2005 10:37:03 +0200
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'Literary' texts no more?
CNN - November 17, 2005
LONDON, England (AP) -- "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? ???"
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