Comments | undyingking: T9: the Widowoaler

undyingking

T9: the Widowoaler

Mar 07, 2008 14:34

Following a link from languagelog, I learned some things about predictive text.

Did you know that the commonest predictive text system is called T9? I didn't. But I do now ( Read more... )

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Comments 8

Doris celestialweasel March 7 2008, 16:02:15 UTC

A word I often type is 'empire', the predictive text for the first 5 letters is 'doris'.

Re: Doris undyingking March 7 2008, 16:19:31 UTC

If I was to ask why you frequently have to type 'empire', would that give away too many of your plans for world domination?

Re: Doris celestialweasel March 7 2008, 16:21:50 UTC

As in 'how fares the empire?'

al_fruitbat March 7 2008, 16:07:36 UTC

Grr... T9. My last phone didn't allow stuff to be added to the dictionary ;-(
My current (unsupported unbundled) phone didn't ship with the T9 dictionary, so I had to download and install it from a german FTP site.
Also, try typing 'seeya' - it comes out as 'reexa'. WHY?

undyingking March 7 2008, 16:18:39 UTC

It's not just you!

First part of "reexamine".

pmcray March 7 2008, 17:49:06 UTC

A particular irk I find is that "cup" comes before "bus". How often is one likely to want to enter "cup"?

The "wy" rather than "xx" is very tedious. I assume that most of the absurdities are less absurd if one is texting in Finnlish or Swedlish.

undyingking March 10 2008, 09:52:34 UTC

As a wise woman once said, a man still texting 'cup' after the age of 30 has failed at life.

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undyingking March 10 2008, 17:19:43 UTC

Zhod xgmf wine?