Iliad as IMs

By at 11:42 pm Monday, May 24

Microsoft has commissioned an IM-speak translation of The Iliad to promote its new IM client; book two is compressed to a mere 24 "words":
Agamemnon hd a dream: Troy not defended. Ordered attack! But Trojans knew they were coming n were prepared. Achilles sat sulking in his tent.
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