HieroZlango? Zlanglyphs? :-)
Humor, Personal Productivity, Software, Startups, Technology June 28th, 2006
profiled Zlango,
a cute icon-based SMS ZMS language. Nice, who knows what the outcome will be:
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It will not take off, since to really use it, the receiving end needs to have
it on their phone, too.
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Because of the above, it will spread virally
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Since it’s so cute, it will spread among kids first, and the language
separation will be final: we can give up any hope of understanding the 10-year
olds ever again.
Either way, as Ethan
points out, the idea is not quite new: Zlango = ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs + modern
technology.
Tags: zlango, sms, zms, hiroglyphs, egypt, techcrunch
Zoli Erdos
That’s exactly it: ancient egyptian hieroglyphs, reinvented. If they were so great the first time, why didn’t we keep them?
Sridhar
Yep. And I think they stole off my post