I was listening to an article on radio four on the development of language, particularly in relation to "texting".
There were two things that I found interesting. Firstly, the rise in 160 poetry where poems are created in 160 characters or less.
Secondly, was the rise in Japan of entire stories that can be sent in text messages.
So what has this got to do with anything? Well, if you only have 160 characters to convey a message or a story it makes you think about your words very carefully. Everyone of them has to matter.
So why do so many proposals obviously have so many words that don't matter? Maybe it's time that that the page should be considered valuable real estate and room is strictly limited.
Oh, and if you are interested to see what a 160 poem reads like then your may be interested to know that in 2002 Emma Passmore won £1,500 with this:
I left my pictur on th ground wher u walk
so that somday if th sun was jst right
& th rain didnt wash me awa
u might c me out of th corner of yr i & pic me up
I wonder what a 160 proposal would look like.
There were two things that I found interesting. Firstly, the rise in 160 poetry where poems are created in 160 characters or less.
Secondly, was the rise in Japan of entire stories that can be sent in text messages.
So what has this got to do with anything? Well, if you only have 160 characters to convey a message or a story it makes you think about your words very carefully. Everyone of them has to matter.
So why do so many proposals obviously have so many words that don't matter? Maybe it's time that that the page should be considered valuable real estate and room is strictly limited.
Oh, and if you are interested to see what a 160 poem reads like then your may be interested to know that in 2002 Emma Passmore won £1,500 with this:
I left my pictur on th ground wher u walk
so that somday if th sun was jst right
& th rain didnt wash me awa
u might c me out of th corner of yr i & pic me up
I wonder what a 160 proposal would look like.
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