Quotations

Nineteenth-century lolz

Posted by Jennie on

In Great Expectations, Pip’s note-writing looks remarkably like a (drunk?) text message:

MI DEER JO i OPE U R KR WITE WELL i OPE i SHAL SON B HABELL 4 2 TEEDGE U JO AN THEN WE SHORL B SO GLODD AN WEN i M PRENGTD 2 U JO WOT LARX AN BLEVE ME INF XN PIP.

Maybe “wot larx” was the lol of its day?

Dickens portrait
Portrait of Dickens from the British Library Flickr

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