Re: Book written in txt msg

[Hum]

HELSINKI, Finland (AP) -- A novel whose narrative consists entirely of mobile phone text messages has been published in Finland.

"The Last Messages" tells the story of a fictitious information-technology executive in Finland who resigns from his job and travels throughout Europe and India, keeping in touch with his friends and relatives only through text messages.

His messages, and the replies -- roughly 1,000 altogether -- are listed in chronological order in the 332-page novel written by Finnish author Hannu Luntiala.

The texts are rife with grammatical errors and abbreviations commonly used in regular SMS traffic.

"I believe that, at the end of the day, a text message may reveal much more about a person than you would initially think," said Luntiala, who also is head of a company that keeps databases on people living in Finland.

Sari Havukainen, spokeswoman at Finnish publishing house Tammi, said the company is considering translating the book into other languages.

The taciturn Finns, keen on all mobile gadgets, have wholeheartedly accepted text messages as a tool to communicate even in most private matters.

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[halcyoncmdr]

Interesting idea to write a book only using txt messages :p

Wish I'd thought of it :shiftyninja:

[Cavalyr]

wow. thought doing one in notepad would take a while. what a collection of txt msgs that must be.

[chopyaedoff]

Other languages? Leetspeak?

[Matrix XII]

That would take soooo looong

[chopyaedoff]

That would take soooo looong

1 dy thr lvd a ma clld tom. He lvd in a bg hse n he lvd hpply evr aftr. The nd.

Take that for example - it took me a couple of second to write.

[XerXis]

the downfall of language as we know it has begun

[Colin-uk Veteran]

lol damn, thats so weird.

I had a dream about that exact thing like 2 nights ago.. :|

[Echilon]

Must be a pretty boring book if they need to resort to a gimmick like that.

[Umbrello]

1 dy thr lvd a ma clld tom. He lvd in a bg hse n he lvd hpply evr aftr. The nd.

Take that for example - it took me a couple of second to write.

Unless you typed that from a cell phone, your argument is invalid. Keyboard != cell phone pad.

[Daniel Tablas]

This type of thing is just getting out of control, and it's getting overated. :p

I agree with Echilon lol (Y)

[TheRealDave]

Unless you typed that from a cell phone, your argument is invalid. Keyboard != cell phone pad.

how? less characters = less typing regardless of phone or keyboard.

[+M2Ys4U Subscriber¹]

how? less characters = less typing regardless of phone or keyboard.

SMS Messages have a limited number of characters you can use. Abbreviated words therefore not only reduce typing time, but help fit more text per message.

[Boffa Jones Veteran]

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Ugh, this is defiently not a good thing.

[dnast]

I saw a book a year or two ago that consisted of only AIM (or something similar) chat messages. It was cute, but I couldn't be arsed to read through all of that.

[+vlsi0n Subscriber¹]

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Ugh, this is defiently not a good thing.

I think that things should only be shortened when someone's in a hurry or when it is okay to shorten i.e. friends.

Txt spk 4 nrml use not gd.