Wordie: Predictive text speak: Comments

Comment by kewpid, 4 months ago

Tue, 06 May 2008 13:37:03 +0000

eep! how did I manage to miss this? Good words guys.

Comment by frindley, 4 months ago

Sun, 04 May 2008 05:46:59 +0000

Hee hee! Predictable maybe, but very funny.

It's a shame, though, that predictive text dictionaries couldn't be a bit more extensive. Although if they were I wouldn't encounter such amusing non-words as captaingog and volatus…

Comment by sarra, 4 months ago

Sat, 03 May 2008 15:00:00 +0000

ooh!

a virtual keypad at t9.com

There's quite a lovely (if…er…predictable — though the ending, I think originally shown at the end of the programme, is a beauty!) sketch by Armstrong & Miller on T9's well-known “preferences”: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hcoT6yxFoUM

Comment by sarra, 4 months ago

Sat, 03 May 2008 14:52:23 +0000

I rifle through the electronic archives to see what words have been added to the personal dictionary of my 'phone from time to time. Among abbreviations, errors and names and items of personal or local significance, there are some odd ones, most of which you might expect to be part of the T9 dictionary already:

walking
glib
spontaneously
beauteous
watching
brilliant
justifying
subtext
unbearded
inevitability
vicarious
neverending
workshop
cellist
consultant
hostels
trying
better
albatross

(for some reason, it forgets how to spell things ending in -ing)