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Some of the most complicated and wordy works of English literature are being compressed into the jerky speedwriting of text messages, to help students choose classics and master their revision.
The dark labyrinth of plots in Bleak House and the epic verse of Paradise Lost are among masterpieces picked for drastic slimming into a couple of lines for sending automatically to mobile phones.
The scheme uses the crafty shorthand of texting to turn the most famous line in Hamlet into 2b?Ntb?=? Key passages to quote in exams or seminars are also picked out, such as F Scott Fitzgerald's warning to the Great Gatsby about his gilded youth: "MembaDatAlDaPplnDaWrldHvntHdDaVantgsUvAd".
The service is being launched by the student phone service dot mobile, with heavyweight backing from John Sutherland, the Lord Northcliffe professor emeritus of English literature at University College London, who also chaired the judging panel of this year's Man Booker prize.
"Some may argue that Dickens, for instance, is really too big a morsel to be swallowed by text," he said. "But the 'Great Inimitable' himself began working life as a shorthand writer. He would, I suspect, have approved of the brevity if nothing else."
Prof Sutherland said texting was an underused but promising educational resource. "Take the dot mobile ending to Jane Eyre for example - MadwyfSetsFyr2Haus," he said. "Was ever a climax better compressed?"
The initiative will initially be tied to national curriculum and university course texts, but dot mobile's inputters have wider ambitions, including a complete, shrunken works of Shakespeare.
Classics compressed (and what they actually mean)
Romeo and Juliet
FeudTween2hses--Montague& Capulet. RomeoM falls_<3w/_ JulietC@mary Secretly Bt R kils J's Coz&isbanishd. J fakes Death. As Part of Plan2b-w/R Bt_leter Bt It Nvr Reachs Him. Evry1confuzd--- bothLuvrs kil Emselves.

Translation
A feud between two houses - Montague and Capulet. Romeo Montague falls in love with Juliet Capulet and they marry secretly, but Romeo kills Juliet's cousin and is banished. Juliet fakes her own death. As part of the plan to be with Romeo she writes him a letter but it never reaches him. Everyone is confused and both lovers kill themselves.

Pride and Prejudice
5SistrsWntngHsbnds.NwMenIn Twn-Bingly&Darcy Fit&Loadd. BigSisJaneFals4B,2ndSisLizH8s DCozHesProud.SlimySoljrWikam SysDHsShadyPast.TrnsOutHes ActulyARlyNysGuy&RlyFancysLiz.SheDecydsSheLyksHim.Evry1GtsMaryd.

Five sisters wanting husbands. There are two new men in town - Bingley and Darcy. They are handsome and wealthy. Big sister Jane falls for Bingley, but second sister Elizabeth hates Darcy because he is proud. Slimy soldier Wickham says Darcy has a shady past. It turns out that he's actually a really nice guy and really fancies Elizabeth. She decides that she likes him. Everyone gets married.

Bleak House
EstherBecumsWardOfJarndyce WhosInCortCase.OvaWardsRich&Ada (L8aACuple).Tulkinghorn-nosyLawyer-WorksOutLadyDedlock= E'sMum.CaseEnds w/ no1 gtn money. E marrysSexyDoc-Liv 2geva InBleakHse.Rich&L.DedlockDie.

Esther becomes the ward of Jarndyce, who is involved in a court case about Richard and Ada (who are later a couple). Tulkinghorn - a nosy lawyer - works out that Lady Dedlock is Esther's mother. The case is concluded with no one receiving any money. Esther marries the sexy doctor and they live together in Bleak House. Richard and Lady Dedlock die.

approve of- pochwalać, aprobować
banish- wypędzać, skazywać na banicję
brevity- zwięzłość, skrót
chair- przewodniczyć
climax- punkt kulminacyjny
compressed- skrócony
conclude with- kończyć się (czymś)
confused- zakłopotany, zdezorientowany, zmieszany
crafty- sprytny
fake- udawać, fałszować
feud- waśń, nienawiść, niezgoda
gilded youth- złota młodzież
initially- początkowo
jerky- szarpany, gwałtowny, nagły
master- opanowywać
morsel- kawałek, kąsek
nosy- wścibski, ciekawski
professor emeritus- profesor honorowy
shady- podejrzany, ciemny
shorthand- stenografia, skrót wyrazu
shrunken- skurczony
slimming- odchudzanie
slimy- obleśny, oślizgły, nieuczciwy
underused- nie w pełni wykorzystany
wordy- rozwlekły


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