Hum Posted January 26, 2007 Share Posted January 26, 2007 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. source Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/533039-re-book-written-in-txt-msg/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
halcyoncmdr Posted January 26, 2007 Share Posted January 26, 2007 Interesting idea to write a book only using txt messages :p Wish I'd thought of it :shiftyninja: Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/533039-re-book-written-in-txt-msg/#findComment-588261314 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cavalyr Posted January 26, 2007 Share Posted January 26, 2007 wow. thought doing one in notepad would take a while. what a collection of txt msgs that must be. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/533039-re-book-written-in-txt-msg/#findComment-588261322 Share on other sites More sharing options...
chopyaedoff Posted January 26, 2007 Share Posted January 26, 2007 Other languages? Leetspeak? Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/533039-re-book-written-in-txt-msg/#findComment-588262779 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matrix XII Posted January 26, 2007 Share Posted January 26, 2007 That would take soooo looong Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/533039-re-book-written-in-txt-msg/#findComment-588262788 Share on other sites More sharing options...
chopyaedoff Posted January 28, 2007 Share Posted January 28, 2007 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. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/533039-re-book-written-in-txt-msg/#findComment-588267557 Share on other sites More sharing options...
XerXis Posted January 28, 2007 Share Posted January 28, 2007 the downfall of language as we know it has begun Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/533039-re-book-written-in-txt-msg/#findComment-588267566 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colin-uk Veteran Posted January 28, 2007 Veteran Share Posted January 28, 2007 lol damn, thats so weird. I had a dream about that exact thing like 2 nights ago.. :| Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/533039-re-book-written-in-txt-msg/#findComment-588267570 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Echilon Posted January 28, 2007 Share Posted January 28, 2007 Must be a pretty boring book if they need to resort to a gimmick like that. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/533039-re-book-written-in-txt-msg/#findComment-588269320 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Umbrello Posted January 28, 2007 Share Posted January 28, 2007 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. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/533039-re-book-written-in-txt-msg/#findComment-588269325 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniel Tablas Posted January 28, 2007 Share Posted January 28, 2007 This type of thing is just getting out of control, and it's getting overated. :p I agree with Echilon lol (Y) Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/533039-re-book-written-in-txt-msg/#findComment-588269433 Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheRealDave Posted January 28, 2007 Share Posted January 28, 2007 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. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/533039-re-book-written-in-txt-msg/#findComment-588269474 Share on other sites More sharing options...
+M2Ys4U Subscriber¹ Posted January 28, 2007 Subscriber¹ Share Posted January 28, 2007 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. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/533039-re-book-written-in-txt-msg/#findComment-588269537 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boffa Jones Veteran Posted January 28, 2007 Veteran Share Posted January 28, 2007 Thread Moved from NFN to Media Room Ugh, this is defiently not a good thing. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/533039-re-book-written-in-txt-msg/#findComment-588269785 Share on other sites More sharing options...
dnast Posted January 29, 2007 Share Posted January 29, 2007 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. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/533039-re-book-written-in-txt-msg/#findComment-588270314 Share on other sites More sharing options...
+vlsi0n Subscriber¹ Posted January 29, 2007 Subscriber¹ Share Posted January 29, 2007 Thread Moved from NFN to Media RoomUgh, 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. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/533039-re-book-written-in-txt-msg/#findComment-588270326 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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