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From: markv@dartvax.UUCP (Mark F. Vita)
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Subject: Prince's Original Writing Style
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Date: Wed, 3-Jul-85 12:17:42 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jul  3 12:17:42 1985
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   The other day I went over to use my stereo and found my sister's tape
of Prince's Purple Rain soundtrack sitting atop my tape deck.  Instead
of depositing this piece of worthless turd into her bedroom, I had a strange
urge to open the cassette box.  Inside, along with the album credits, I found
a piece of text, presumably written by Prince.  I read the text, which
appeared to be fairly meaningless, and noticed an odd aberration in the
writing style.  Everywhere that the word "for" was intended, he used the
numeral "4"; everywhere the word "you" was intended, the letter "u"
appeared.  There may have been other oddities, but I do not recall them
at the moment.
   My question is: is there a language/intelligence problem here, or is
Prince just trying to be cute/original?  I would tend to guess the former,
but if the latter is the reason, I have news for him:  my sister developed
a similar writing style years ago, when she was in the second grade, although
she later abandoned it.  Anybody else out there in netland have a theory
to offer?



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                                Mark Vita
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