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Great Expectations
Charles Dickens writes in the phonetic spelling of the unschooled Pip. Pip is
learning to read and write so he is sounding out the spellings of words as he
hears them in his native dialect. It is all the harder for us
because it is in 19th century Victorian English with a local accent.
Deciphering Pip´s unpunctuated prose ...
My dear Joe,
I hope you are quite well. I hope I shall soon be able to teach you, Joe – and then we shall be so glad. And when I am apprenticed to you, Joe: what larks! Believe me, in affection,
Pip
I hope you are quite well. I hope I shall soon be able to teach you, Joe – and then we shall be so glad. And when I am apprenticed to you, Joe: what larks! Believe me, in affection,
Pip
What about the rapidly developing language of the SMS text?
‘How r u?’ = How are you?
‘JM2p’ = Just my two pence worth.
‘How r u?’ = How are you?
‘JM2p’ = Just my two pence worth.
Coding touches upon the very basics of information which are discussed
in Chapter 3 of Information Economics.