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Interesting article in the New York Times magazine last Sunday entitled "The Pleasures of the Text."

Note: "The Chinese language is particularly well-suited to the telephone keypad, because in Mandarin the names of the numbers are also close to the sounds of certain words; to say "I love you," for example, all you have to do is press 520. (For "drop dead," it's 748.)" Good to know!

My favorite part of the article is the Google ad at the bottom that shows an MSN Messenger ad.

By the way I noticed that some of these NYT articles expire and then ask you to subscribe to the New York Times Select service - apologies about that.