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  • gr8 brit lit turnd in2 txts 4 studes

    11/17/2005 3:08:22 PM PST · by martin_fierro · 7 replies · 275+ views
    AFP/Yahoo ^ | Thu Nov 17, 2:33 PM ET
    gr8 brit lit turnd in2 txts 4 studes Thu Nov 17, 2:33 PM ET LONDON (AFP) - Some of the greatest and longest works of English literature have been turned into text messages as a part of a student revision scheme. Mobile phone company dot-mobile, which is behind the project, has translated the likes of William Shakespeare, Jane Austen, Charles Dickens and John Milton into text, as a modern-day "aide-memoire" for under-pressure crammers. For example, "To be or not to be, that is the question", uttered by the eponymous hero of Shakespeare's Hamlet, becomes "2b? Nt2b? = ???". Likewise, the...