{"id":980,"date":"2003-03-04T19:38:15","date_gmt":"2003-03-05T11:38:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/03\/05\/tw\/"},"modified":"2019-12-04T14:54:39","modified_gmt":"2019-12-04T22:54:39","slug":"tw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/03\/04\/tw\/","title":{"rendered":"tw@"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:15164,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/news.bbc.co.uk\\\/1\\\/hi\\\/uk\\\/2814235.stm&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20230519025410\\\/http:\\\/\\\/news.bbc.co.uk\\\/1\\\/hi\\\/uk\\\/2814235.stm&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-13 14:49:11&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-13 14:49:11&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:15165,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/greenfairy.com&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20251214121404\\\/http:\\\/\\\/www.greenfairy.com\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-13 14:49:12&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-13 14:49:12&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>Following up (again) on the the <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/03\/ilny_its_a_gr8_.html\" title=\"ILNY it's a gr8 plc\">text messaging as writing<\/a> thread, the BBC has a page where they&#8217;re asking for user submissions of classic works <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/uk\/2814235.stm\" title=\"Is txt mightier than the word?\">in &#8216;abbreviated&#8217; format<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Reading some of these produces an interesting dichotomy &#8212; I&#8217;m impressed by the creativity of some of these, while simultaneously cringing at what&#8217;s being done to such classic literature!<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  4scr + 7a ugo r 4fthrs brt 4th on this cn10nt a nu nAshn cnCvd in lbRT + ddc8d 2 th prop tht (evRE1) r crE8d =<\/p>\n<p>  aka: &#8220;Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.&#8221;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Amusingly, though, in the comments to the post at <a href=\"http:\/\/greenfairy.com\/\" title=\"Green Fairy\">Green Fairy<\/a> where I found this (no permalink available, unfortunately &#8212; her post was on March 3^rd^ if you want to search for it), someone suggested the abbreviation &#8216;<strong>tw@<\/strong>&#8216;.<\/p>\n<p>I like that one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>4scr + 7a ugo r 4fthrs brt 4th on this cn10nt a nu nAshn cnCvd in lbRT + ddc8d 2 th prop tht (evRE1) r crE8d =<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2028],"tags":[39],"class_list":["post-980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links","tag-links"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/980","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/980\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}