A new app which adds a Shakespearean touch to your text messaging, has been launched lately to celebrate the 400th anniversary of the Bard's death and as part of a tourism drive for the capital, called 'Fans of London'.

 

为了纪念诗人莎士比亚逝世400周年，近日推出了一款新型应用，可以给你的短信赋予莎士比亚的风格，这也是英国首都举办“伦敦粉丝”活动促进旅游业发展的一项举措。

 

Working with VisitLondon.com, the official visitor guide for the capital, ShakeSpeak has been developed by software company SwiftKey, best known for their language prediction app. By analysing the Complete Works of Shakespeare they developed an app that helps turn your text messages into Shakespearean prose¹ by predicting the playwright's best known phrases.

 

Swiftkey's app, which is available to download free of charge, allows you to simply type the first word or two of a famous Shakespearean quote and the technology will do the rest. For example:

 

To be or not to be, that is the question

That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet

All the world's a stage and all the men and women merely players

 

And in order to make your text messages as authentic² as the Bard's language, Swiftkey's analysis of the Complete Works of Shakespeare recommends using 'Thou', 'thee' and 'thy' in your text messages, as these three words are among the most frequent Shakespeare uses compared to how we speak today.

 

The launch of the ShakeSpeak app is part of the Fans of London tourism campaign from VisitLondon.com, which is supported by the GREAT Britain Campaign, British Airways³ and Hilton. Fans of London celebrates the blockbuster events taking place across the capital this year, including the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's legacy⁴, and the first ever exhibition on the Rolling Stones, EXHIBITIONISM.

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