Zlango is pretty neat. It’s an entirely ‘new’ language based on using icons, thus:
(That’s me writing ‘I say smstextnews rocks’ — alas there’s no icon for smstextnews yet…!)
I’m going to take a closer look at Zlango shortly — one million users worldwide can’t be wrong — meantime here’s the facts, ma’am:
– Zlango Mobile Application – offers mobile phones and handheld devices a feature-rich messaging experience, with the ability to compose in Zlango, ordinary text, or a mixture of the two. It has all the usual characteristics of a messaging application and is compatible with over 300 different devices
– Zlango Plugins – integrates Zlango with any browser-based messaging service such as Yahoo mail, AOL mail, MSN Hotmail and Gmail. Anyone downloading the extension is able to compose and send Zlango messages
– Zlango IM Extension – Zlango has integrated with ICQ to allow all users to compose, send and receive ZMS’s. Additional integrations to major IM providers are under way
– Zlango Social Site Applications – enables members of social sites such as Facebook to communicate via Zlango icons
– Zlango Website – enables visitors to create and send messages as well as publish them on the site or externally. The site offers Zlango e-cards and merchandise
I first saw this a couple of years ago at 3GSM (as it was then) in Barcelona. One of the benefits is that you can (at least in theory) communicate across language barriers.
Am I the only one who interpretated that as “I says SMStextnews eggs”? LOL
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…and could you understand a word of it without the captions?
Without the captions I’d read that as:
NECK SPEECH SMSTEXTNEWS EGGS!