Letters to the Editor
Thanks to everyone who sent in entries to our SMS Poetry competition.We only have space to print a few of them. We also have had many suggestions to our Top Ten Love Songs of All Time. We receive many entries by e-mail these days, without home addresses accompanying them. So, if you see your name here then please send us your home address details and we will send you a CD as a prize.
4 U, TIGR
IT FEELS SO GUD
IT FEELS JUST GR8
2 WATCH U ENTR
MY G8
IT WUD B G8
IT WUD B FINE
2 SHELTR U
2 KEEP U MINE
U R IN D AIR
IN MY BLODS RIVR
U FIL MY WORLD
& MAKE ME SHIVR
NO MATTR IF ITS
RON OR RITE
MY AIM IZ
2 B URS TONITE
& EVN IF WE SOON R GON
REMEMBR U R MY NO.1
Olga Nowacka, Police
A great little poem, Olga. It works as a poem, is simple to understand, and it makes clever and inventive use of the SMS "code". Other entries we received were just as good. Look at this one:
2 U
GO A LONG WA
BUT DON'T 4CA MI 2 STA
IM FED UP WITH ALL I C
IF I GO DON'T LOOK 4 MI
AL IN AL ITS D BEST WA
DON'T BE AL @ C
AND DON'T TRI 2 DTAIN IT
JUST 4GET ABOUT MI
Which in normal English looks something like this:
To You
Go a long way
But don't force me to stay
I'm fed up with all I see
If I go, don't look for me
All in all it's the best way
Don't be all at sea
And don't try to detain it
Just forget about me
Eliza Szachowicz, Płonsk
Now you get the idea, can you work out how these next two look in real English?
WRU?
U R MY J
AL I CAN C
BT IS IT PO$BL
2 FGV ME?
I ALWS WSH U GUD LUK
& ATB
BT WEN U C ME IM LND
ILL TEL U DE RST
ILL SEND U A[
OR NTHING U NID
Marta Hadzinska, Żarki, Letnisko