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cellphone novel
Last modified: Wednesday, August 05, 2009
A published book that is based on and largely contains
text messaging sentences as they were typed
out on a cellphone. Cellphone novels are usually
authored by women, are in the first person and are read like a personal diary.
Cellphone novels are popular in Japan, because the nature of the Japanese
language, where a complete sentence in Japanese can be a single verb, is more
compatible with short text messaging sentences.
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