It contained dozens of SMS-looking examples, such as agn "again", mth "month", and gd "good" - 50 years before texting was born.
She is interested in how and why new genres and forms of literature and texts are born in response to specific social and political circumstances.
It just so happened that Hillebrand was chairman of Global System for Mobile Communications GSM to you and I. So, after a little technical voodoo, including deciding to send text message data on a barely used radio channel, the text message was born.
The German literary greats had not even been born when Wolff wrote his German texts (Lessing was born in 1729, Herder in 1744, Goethe in 1749).
Moreover, including the text that Buddha was born in India in high school texts is equally condescending.
Mr. Almazan, placid and serious, immersed in sound, the kind of musician who's more fascinated by text than context, was born in Havana, the son of the bass player Rafael Almazán.
For instance, consider the text "Goethe, who was born in Frankfurt, is one of the most famous German writers".
– Ashwin Seshagiri 'I Was Really Into the Sound of Marimbas' The Atlantic | How Apple's default text-message alert was born.
Back in the '80s, when Sherrie Levine exhibited photographs she made of photographs by Walker Evans, and Richard Prince made photographs of Marlboro cigarette ads leaving out only the text, a new genre was born: Appropriation Art.
Still, no one is complaining if she stimulates visions as wonderful as WH Auden's text, which Benjamin Britten (who was born on St Cecilia's Day) set as his Hymn to St Cecilia in 1942.
