Oh man, what kind of headaches did I get myself into when I made this challenge, haha! Just one thing, I think you meant “N DdrknS he clld nite.” Can’t think of much more of a way to abbreviate that.

Bravo! Excellent idea to use a well known verse to pack in as much extra meaning as possible!

Ah, took me awhile but i got it! gd jb!!!

Science,

Quite correct. I have corrected.

Thank you for pointing it out.

Do you think there would be much of a call for a text message or twitter version of the bible?

Oh dear god… what have you done?

RYD: The twitter Bible! You’re hired!

Ha! I’ve gotta be honest, RYD, the exact same question crossed my mind yesterday after reading this ficly.

Made me giggle

I avoided reading this because I hate trying to decipher text speak.. but this was almost worth it.

Dear God, RockPaperScissors needs some Excedrin.

Oh my gosh. My first featured story.

Thank you, I am honored.

RYD

Wow, it took me a while…but I finally got it. LOL

Hey hey! Congrats on being featured RYD!

Yeah, I must text too much. I understood it all, and I rarely ever use txt-speak. To paraphrase Buzz Lightyear: I am a sad, strange little man.

Nice job, and grats on the feature, RYD!

I don’t think I even realized that people text like this until I read your story. I’m appalled, but at the same time I am tickled at the way your story uses this medium. Well done.

Oh man, my head. It took me a second to get it, but I managed pretty well. Except for one part: N D rth wz w/o frm Nvoid. If anyone could explain, I’d appreciate it. I’m pretty proud of myself for getting the rest, though. Now, excuse me while I get some ice for my head! :)

Capitalized letters are pronounced as the letter. For instance D is pronounced Dee.

N (and) D (the) rth (earth) wz (was) w/o (without) frm (form) Nvoid (and void)

Please allow me to appologize for all the headaches. I promise you I have no stock in Bayer pharma.

Aha! It was ‘without form and void’ that really stuck me. Curses.
Don’t worry, it’s our faults for even trying to decipher the code of your story! And, by the way, ice works really good. ;)

when u say it outloud like i did u sound stupid

If it sounds stupid, then i blame the translator into text language. At times he can be a real fool. Oh that’s me.

Sorry.

Crazy. Did you know there are online conversion tools that do this sort of thing for you? It’ll save you time the next time you decide to do something like this. Think about it!

I was unaware of such a service being available. I am not surprised though

so, what if we don’t text too much?

well, i guess i’ll answer that myself: then, this is just nonsense!

…oh! ok, I got it!
lol my cell phone is my right hand

I do believe that Harry Hood has made it his duty to just bring down the ratings of everybody’s stories….
I love this story though.
lol
I was reading it out loud,my mum was like, “Henry! What in the lords name are you doing?”
Apparently, my family doesn’t know the bible as well as I do.

I feel like the only person on Ficly who can’t actually read this and I’m addicted to texting =/ there’s something wrong with me lol

lol.
open the bible.
lol
read.

fair enough lol

yeah,
it’s like the first paragraph or something….
(I’ve never actually read the bile, I just text alot)

I text excessively, but all my friends and I actually text in full-words! lol

I text in full words,
but the same cannot be said for a few of my friends.
lol

it just annoys me when people say things like “u kno wat im tlkn bout” I mean just spell the words out, its kind of EASY! (And maybe include punctuation while you’re at it) haha

Woww. I can’t believe I figured that out because I either don’t text, or text in full words. I guessed on most of it and said what sounded right. Good idea. I’ve never thought of something like that.

XFG,

Just for you, and because you asked, I will make an interlinear translation of the message.

N (in)D (the) BginN (beginning) gd (God) kre8td (created) D (the) hvn (heaven) N (and) D (the) rth (earth). N (and) D (the) rth (earth) wz (was) w/o (without) frm (form) Nvoid (and void), N (and) drknz (darkness) wz (was) on (on) Dface (the face) O (of) Ddeep (the deep). N (and) D (the) sprt (spirit) o (of) gd (God) muvd (moved) on (on) Dface (the face) O (of) D (the) H2O (waters). N (and)gd (God) sed (said) lt (let) dR (there) B (be) lite (light) N (and) dR (there) wz (was) lite (light). N (and) gd (God) saw (saw) Dlite (the light), datit (that it) wz (was) gud (good). N (and) gd (god) / (divided) Dlite (the light) frm (from) DdrknS (the darkness). N (and) gd (God) clld (called) Dlite (the light) dA (day), N (and) DdrknS (the darkness) he (he) clld (called) nite (night). N (and) D (the) eveNng (evening) N (and) D (the) mornN (morning) wer (were) D (the) 1st (first) dA (day).

Lawks! I think I had a stroke…

whoaaa, I would’ve never gotten that! I’m obviously textually-retarded!

Just as a thought to texters.

Don’t you think the purpose of language is communication? And if the language is unclear the communication is at best obscured and at worst huntleprkerled. Now R U thinkin tht ths guys lostit 4sure?
Brillig and the slithy toves did gyre and gimble in the wabe. All mimsy were the borogoves, and the mome raths outgrabe.

But you know what I mean

I was gonna prequel with a translation,
but didn’t want people to think I was being Snobby:)

Well, on the plus side, I don’t text too much.

Honestly, this one was really easy for me because of all those years playing various versions of Sid Meier’s Civilization. I can almost hear Leonard Nimoy reading this, in my mind.