Comments on: Could you translate Shakespeare to SMS? http://www.mediumandthemessage.com/2007/01/could-you-translate-shakespeare-to-sms/ Mon, 26 Jul 2010 13:30:16 -0500 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Zoe http://www.mediumandthemessage.com/2007/01/could-you-translate-shakespeare-to-sms/comment-page-1/#comment-91 Zoe Sun, 11 Feb 2007 21:28:43 +0000 http://www.mediumandthemessage.com/2007/01/28/could-you-translate-shakespeare-to-sms/#comment-91 omg that was funny...spelling mistakes and all. But I tell you, as familiar as I am with those acronyms I still needed a dictionary on some of them! omg that was funny…spelling mistakes and all. But I tell you, as familiar as I am with those acronyms I still needed a dictionary on some of them!

]]> By: Michael O'Connor Clarke http://www.mediumandthemessage.com/2007/01/could-you-translate-shakespeare-to-sms/comment-page-1/#comment-88 Michael O'Connor Clarke Sat, 10 Feb 2007 15:43:50 +0000 http://www.mediumandthemessage.com/2007/01/28/could-you-translate-shakespeare-to-sms/#comment-88 I think the SMS Shakespeare thing has been tried a couple of times (with mixed results, as you might well imagine). In similar vein, though, there are a couple of absolutely terrific webby renditions of the Bard out there, in particular: - Brian Millar's hilarious <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.myrtle.co.uk/art/hamlet/" rel="nofollow">PowerPoint Hamlet</a>, complete with SWOT analysis (that link opens the .PPS file directly) - Tales for the L33t's outstanding stick-figure <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://omgwtf.superlime.com/romjul.swf" rel="nofollow">Romeo & Juliet</a> rendered in hacker speak. Had me positively snorting with laughter the first time I watched it (I'm such a geek). I think the SMS Shakespeare thing has been tried a couple of times (with mixed results, as you might well imagine).

In similar vein, though, there are a couple of absolutely terrific webby renditions of the Bard out there, in particular:

- Brian Millar’s hilarious PowerPoint Hamlet, complete with SWOT analysis (that link opens the .PPS file directly)

- Tales for the L33t’s outstanding stick-figure Romeo & Juliet rendered in hacker speak. Had me positively snorting with laughter the first time I watched it (I’m such a geek).

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