T9 texting - y’know, when you start to type a word and your cell phone tries to guess what you are trying to say?
Some people love it. Some people hate it. Some T9 programs work better than others.
I once tried to tell someone I had sunburn and it came out “rumbupo” (which is now an inside joke with my friends).
And today - I was typing to my boyfriend about my “panties” (don’t ask me why) and it came out “panther” - and well a panther is a cat, which is also called a kitty or a pu*** - and well, it just amused me.
Have you notice any other T9 anomalies or had any other T9 errors that you want to share?
So why were you texting to your b/f about panties? Oh…right. Sorry.
I can’t think of anything specific at the moment, although there have been umpteen times that I’ve pressed “SEND” just as I notice some ridiculously stupid T9 typo on the screen. Oh well.
Stupid predictive text. Give me my Blackberry any day.
Usually the predictive text on my phone picks up on this stuff. Yes, I typed “shit” but I thought it would automatically correct it to “shirt” as it should have been. I noticed that it didn’t, but it was too late. Message sent. Thanks for the shit.
Not a mixup, but a couple of months ago I was amused to discover that my phone’s T9 dictionary recognizes the Scientology term “engram.”
Why I was typing about engrams, now, that’s the mystery.
Whenever I try to text “aww” my phone’s first suggestion is byzantine. I can just imagine the programmers locked in the back room who had to decide whether or not to put byzantine in the memory.
“Engram” was a real, live word for more than half a century before LRH picked it up and got it dirty in 1950. That is a pretty good dictionary you have, though.
My favourite T9 thingy: cycling through the suggestive suggestions NUDE MUFF MUDD.
my friend gave me a hard time over texting “do you want to in out tonight?”
yea, “in” and “go” are the same letters. Had it been a girl I’d have laughed about it, but it was one of my guy friends and now he just gives me shit about it.
