SMS text messages cannot be longer than 160 characters and tweets on Twitter not longer than 140 characters. Much has been said on what this does to our language whether it promotes creativity and enriches our language or if it makes it poorer because some words or expressions simply don’t fit in.
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The need to be economic with characters is not a new phenomenon. The limiting factors may have been different but there was a need to express one self economically 1000 years ago to.
This rune reads “Gammal och Tjälve läto resa denna sten efter sin fader. En dugande man. Gud hjälpe hans själ” (Gammal and Tjälve had this stone raised after their father. An able man. God help his soul.” 92 characters.
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I love rune stones and runic inscriptions!