The end of the world is surely nigh.
Great literary classics are being reduced to text messages to help students revise.
Take Pride and Prejudice:
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More info on the BBC website.
I'm not sure whether to be appalled or amused. Your thoughts?
4 comments:
Its a monstrous disgrace and the end of civilization as we know it.
Jane A.
I was planning on watching the 5 hour BBC series this Saturday (really, seriously!) because I hadn't seen it before. Now I don't need to! What am I going to do with that extra 5 hours......
Come on, you can put up with Colin Firth, even if you know how it ends. Or, maybe watch Persuasion, only that would be about an hour and a half. Alternatively, start at page one of P&P, the original unabridged book!
I get irritated by this stupid text-message language. How lazy! What a waste of our beautiful words. Appalled is right! There's a few people on a certain on-line journal who will occasionally try to write that style (I've noticed they are not North American or British). I hope they're not teaching this in ESL classes! Horrors.
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