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October 07, 2005
4 God so luvd da world...
The Bible Society of Australia has been working diligently on translating the ENTIRE BIBLE INTO SMS TEXT SPEAK and has just this week released it freely to the public via download from the Society's website.
For the less tech saavy amongt our readers, "SMS" stands for "Short Message Service", an increasingly widespread standard for sending small (less than 150 characters) text messages via an exploding number of "hand held" devices such as cell phones and PDAs. In essence, "SMS text speak" strives to convert spoken English into the fewest alphanumeric characters possible. (thus "for" becomes "4", "great" becomes "gr8", "you" becomes "u", and "sanctification" becomes... ???).
Example: In da Bginnin God cre8d da heavens & da earth
If you have a cell phone, chances are YOU (yes even you!) have SMS capability. And if you are a blossoming techie and crave the full scoop on SMS you need look no further than HERE.
The Mission Statement of the Bible Society of Australia is:
...to provide the Word of God to all people, in their own language, in a format they can use and at a price they can afford
And thus the sole intent of the SMS project is to redraw every verse of Scripture into a 150 character or less text message so that Scripture becomes WHOLLY transmissable via handheld devices. (At a price we can definitely afford... FREE!)
This from BBC News:
The Bible Society in Australia scripture director George Rodriguez said only the spelling of the Bible had been changed for the project, not the language.
"It's a logical step. Our aim at the Bible Society is to get the Bible out there among the people and this is a very effective way of doing it."
The SMS Bible from the Bible Society of Australia is a 7.7MB executable (.EXE) file which must be downloaded and installed onto your PC. However, the SMS translation itself is NOT readable via your PC and whollly assumes that you have an interface/connection between your PC and your cell phone. First you must upload the software to your cellphone from your PC. And then (and only then) may you consider yourself one of the biblically 31337.
Posted by sdf at October 7, 2005 06:19 PM
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my name is FIKADU HURUY i am protestant from Ethiopia i want a theology learning in CANADA or in Australia free learning please help me.
FIKADU HURUY
Ethiopia
Posted by: FIKADU HURUY at August 1, 2007 05:42 AM
