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But really, @_hp_lovecraft_ did it better:
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Greetings, oh Internet, of which I have heard so much about. I am but a humble author, experimenting with a new medium and casting my words_hp_lovecraft_ H. P. Lovecraft
Oh, what horror is this? What fiendish eldritch magick would impose a 140 character limit on simple human communication? What unholy device
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In the 19th century txtspeak was popular in so-called "emblematic poems":
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2010/aug/18/british-library-textspeak-exhibition
Example:
Essay to Miss Catharine Jay
An S A now I mean to write
To U, sweet K T J,
The girl without a ||,
The belle of U T K.
I 1 der if you got that 1
I wrote 2 U B 4
I sailed in the R K D A,
And sent by L N Moore.
My M T head will scarce contain
A calm I D A bright;
But A T miles from U I must
M︷ this chance 2 write.
And 1st, should N E N V U,
B E Z, mind it not;
Should N E friendship show, B true,
They should not be forgot.
But friends and foes alike D K,
As U may plainly C,
In every funeral R A,
Or uncle's L E G,
And if you cannot cut a ---,
Or cause an !
I hope U ’ll put a .
2 1 ?
R U for an X ation 2,
My cous N? Heart and ☞
He off R’s in a ¶
A § 2 of land.
He says he loves U 2 X S,
U R virtuous and Y’s,
In X L N C U X L
All others in his i’s.
This S A, until U I C,
I pray U 2 X Q’s,
And do not burn in F E G
My young and wayward muse.
From virt U nev R D V 8;
Her influence B 9
A like induces 10 dern S,
Or 40 tude D vine.
from: http://www.wissenslogs.de/wblogs/blog/sprachlog/sprachgebrauch/2010-08-22/sms-k-rzel-im-19.-jahrhundert
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