So I was looking at BBC news and saw this article talking about a professor who was able to compress entire plots into text message abbreviations and believes it offers immense educational opportunities.
such plots include:
Pride and Prejudice
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Romeo & Juliet
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Am I the only one that sees this as an awful way of trying to read something? Takes me so much longer to try and understand what they are saying than if they gave me a version in plain english.
I could understand almost all of the Romeo and Juliet plotline since I have read it in the past but it took me alot longer to read the Pride and Prejudice plotline since I had never read it before
A university professor claims it "amply demonstrates text's ability to fillet out the important elements in a plot". It may collect all the important elements and destroy everything else but to me it would be horrible to read like that in broken english...
Original article
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertain...ts/4445088.stm
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