'I wrote 2U B4'! British Library shows up textspeak as soooo 19th century
New exhibition features Victorian poems written like text messages, the rise of RP, and battles over the letter H
If u really r annoyed by the vocabulary of the text generation, then a new exhibition at the British Library should calm you down. It turns out they were doing it in the 19th century – only then they called it emblematic poetry, and it was considered terribly clever.
From: Books: Books + News | guardian.co.uk
Wednesday, 18 August, 2010
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