lolcat bible (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Amy West]

On 2/24/11 12:02 AM, Automatic digest processor wrote:
> Date:    Wed, 23 Feb 2011 13:28:16 +0000
> From:    Charles C Doyle<cdoyle at UGA.EDU>
> Subject: Re: lolcat bible (UNCLASSIFIED)
>
> I notice that the lolcat Bible is said to be available in an audio version.  But aren't eye-dialect and other orthographic features--impossible to capture in speech--essential components of lolcat?
>
> "teh" for 'the'; "skiez" for 'skies'; "Urfs" for 'earth'; "An" for 'on' (all those in the first verse of Genesis 1!).
>
> Amy, I have suggested to my Milton class the possibility of a lolcat translation of_Paradise Lost_  (in blank verse, of course).
>
> --Charlie

I have my students reading McGrath's "Pleasures of the Text" for Friday:
it has the txt msg version of _Paradise Lost_ in it.

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---Amy West

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