“Rub-a-dub-dub, thanks for the grub. Hail, Superchief!”

2 BZ 4 church? No problem: thanks to cell phone “Short Message Service”, church can come to you. To help, a religious group has “translated” the Lord's Prayer into SMS shorthand. “Our Father, who art in heaven” is delivered as “dad@hvn” while “hallowed be thy name” becomes “urspshl.” The entire prayer fits the SMS limit of 160 characters—with 3 to spare. The group's spokesman says the prayer is “an experimental form of virtual worship.” (London Times) … Which is pretty much what all prayer is.

Via my dog wants to be on the radio, [1] Lt Us Pra! [2]

The English translation of the SMS translation of the King James translation of the Lord's Prayer [3] reads like a Pigdin English as used by Aboriginees and Cargo Cults. Very strange stuff indeed.

[1] http://gweezlebur.com/~ivey/weblog/

[2] http://www.thisistrue.com/lordpray.html

[3] http://bible.conman.org/kj/Matthew.6:9-6:13

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