On Sunday, August 10, 2003, at 05:54 PM, keitai-l@appelsiini.net wrote:
>>> Basically the book is full of descriptions that somebody writes a
>>> short message, often a poem,
One sense in which a message could be "short" (other than the obvious
one that it isn't very long) is that it takes a short time to write or
construct. As, typically, with keitai email and texting.
Poems tend to be things people labour over rather....
Were people currently communicating largely through superbly crafted
haiku, there might be something in the comparison.
Perhaps if you were to define what you meant by 'short messaging"
(other than "messages that happen to be short" - in which case the
claim is facile) we could explore the comparison further....
Nick
Received on Sun Aug 10 12:25:50 2003