Friday, June 30, 2006

Text messages on cell phones

Chris at Diacritique, a bilingual French/English blog, has an interesting post about interpreting a cryptic message from his landlady:
Pocket go big bag on kitchen floor can be pulled off stems and 10 mins soak go cold water will revive it


It's a cool example of translating with context (and likely mistakes) in mind!

I see text-message Spanish all over the net, usually featuring "k" for que, and similiar substitutions that are easy to type on a cell phone.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

There's an interesting related post on cellphone txting at Language Hat: "Why Book means 'Cool'".

ps., Chris is a she ;)

Anonymous said...

Very cool design! Useful information. Go on! » »