Rapists?
"Rapists???"
That was the strange one-word SMS message I got from a friend this afternoon.
A few minutes before that, I had sent him a geek question about some PHP scripts. That "Rapists???" message sure wasn't the reply I expected. I was about to send a "Huh?" when the leftover text from my last message made me realize that it was my fault after all. I didn't ask about PHP scripts. I asked about PHP rapists... or at least my phone did.
Ever since I got my first cell phone years ago, I've been using T9 predictive text, which uses a dictionary to let you input text with less key presses. For example, if you want to say "chicken," instead straining your thumb to press 22244444222553366 (I feel tired just thinking about it), you can simply press 2442536--one key for each letter. So convenient, right? And if multiple words share the same key combination, T9 picks the most commonly used one for you... so smart.
Some of my friends find it strange that I always text in unabbreviated English, but I don't care. I refuse to learn Txtardese because I absolutely hate it. Plus I lack thumb dexterity, and T9 is pretty much the only thing that allows me to text slightly faster than your grandmother.
Back to my creepy text message.... 727478 spells "script," so adding a 7 should give me "scripts," right? Right? Nope. T9 smartly predicted that "rapists" is the word I wanted. Thanks a lot, T9.
Seriously, is "rapists" really a more commonly used word than "scripts"? The world is such a horrible place.
I have discovered that...
in most implemented T9 systems pressing an absolute gibberish of keys results in an absolute gibberish word instead of failing.
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"Gibberish" isn't in my T9 dictionary,
so it's not a real word :-P
Since you are very rich
due to all those hits and page views and non-sense Adsense, why not get a QWERTY phone instead? =P
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Nonsense Adsense ads
= no clicks = no money :-P
I have 2 guy friends who use
I have 2 guy friends who use T9 and I love them. As for me, I really couldn't care less about the words I form. And I prefer to talk because when I text, I imagine myself talking (and I talk a lot), therefore so much shit, effort and wasted letters come out of it haha.
You have
your own Txt dialect? Awesome :-D
i actually
have T9 workin in txt format. so instead of typing out the truncated word, i get T9 to actually do it 4 me.
i think i'm doin pretty good in the txt generation even though i didn't have my first cell phone till i was at an embarassin age of 18. now i can type out a msg while crossing the road without bein hit by a incoming truck
I don't really know what you're talking about
But you can still get hit by a truck if the driver is himself, busy texting his girlfriend.
Considering your
questionable spelling and grammar skills, I would say that you're adjusting to the Txtard generation much better than I am :-P Congratulations.
The dict is really weird
Not only does it consider certain uncommon words to be more common, it also couldn't register 'fuck' in it's memory. It's supposed to remember words you use often right? So whenever I'm pissed, I'll be like 3825 and none of the words that come out is the one I angrily want to express. Even 'dubl' is a word, but not 'fuck'.
Hahaha
Sounds like you need the non-PG version of the dictionary :-P
Then you'll be happy to know
that the iPhone and iPod touch are *VERY* pottymouth-friendly. absolutely no issues typing 'fuck' and 'shit' and 'hell', etc.
Hmm, interesting
How about "nigger"? According to the political correctness polices, that's the worst word ever.
Nah, it's suggesting "nugget" instead
@neko-chan
Heh
Fuch :-D
i was trying to misspell 'fuck' on purpose
I feel sorry for the little kids who'd try to type "fuchsia" and their iPhones start suggesting "fuck" instead
I know
I laughed because I got the mental image of Adolf Hitler shouting "fuch" :-D
As for the kids.... If you're old enough to know how to spell "fuchsia," you're old enough to cuss.
Huh?
But h is 4 and k is 5...
@_@
Oh oh! Should have looked at the pic first :P Haha if my lecturer has an iPod, she's gonna sue the company.
ah. texting!
i never liked it.
Let me guess....
You prefer Morse Code? You're old.
i could explain this further...
i'm the most boring texter - all caps, not abbreviated, telegrammatic, no emoticons (eg. NEED PAPERS TODAY, CALL ME NOW!) Lolz! i've always seen it as a misnomer. I prefer to call than write a wayward message and hope that someone will get it (an exercise of faith, i must say). It's probably because phone providers here charge more for text than for calls.
Hmm
You text like my mother :-P
meh
I have the same problem. To make things worse, neither Sony nor Ericsson use American English so go figure how good their T9 dictionaries are
My Nokia
doesn't use American English either. Organise? Realise? Tsk.
!!
Wahahahahahaha...RaPiSt?! That's so...weird...no...retarded, hahahahaha.
PHP rapists...
After a bit of thinking I have to admit that it's an interesting concept.
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Yeah, I guess
PHP can be real fucked up sometimes.
Note as fucked up as PERL though, ...
sadly
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not for nokia phones
but blame your phone brand for having mispelled "scripts" to "rapists". i tried my nokia phones and it spelled correctly. :)
Really? But... but...
mine is a Nokia 6230i :-/
That i changes everything.
Really.
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I is for Idiot?
Oh no! My phone is retarded!
my phones are
nokia 7250i & N70 :)
Two phones?
So you can send two text messages at once? :-P
nah..
one is for personal use while the other one is for business purposes since it's company owned. :)
..is T9 feature belongs to Nokia?
Probably not
I think I've seen T9 on non-Nokia phones too.
T9, which stands for Text on 9 keys...
..., is a patented predictive text technology for mobile phones, developed by Alex Robinson of Tegic Communications, recently acquired by Nuance Communications [1]. It is used on phones from LG, Samsung Electronics, Nokia, Siemens, Sony Ericsson, Sanyo, Sagem and others. Its main competitors are iTap, created by Motorola, and LetterWise, created by Eatoni.
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ok
thanks for the enlightenment about T9 :)
He's the walking wikipedia
Motorola's suck. T9 can still be improved. Interested to know?
Hmm
Go on.
You're interested?
:P
T9 should have the memory Motorola's has so you'll never have to type fuck the old way. It should also automatically switch to number mode after you key in the first number. With T9 you have to change the mode yourself. That's about it. Everything else with Motorola suck.
Oh and never ever buy my phone. It's like a vcr on slow mode. I actually wait for the letters to come out one by one slowwwwwly. Yawn.
Long and boring? You asked :P
Hahaha
Don't you want to tell us which phone model that is? :-P
So in the end
it's just which model :P
E398
E398 sucks!
Now prepare to be sued by Motorola :-P
Hey
a customer's opinion is everything! Let's sue them instead :P
Too bad
stupidity isn't illegal :-(
And this is why
I dislike the T9 Dictionary. I'd rather not have any dictionary second guess me. I type out whole words too, mostly. I txt without looking at my phone half of the time, so naturally I want to be sure that what I typed is what get sent. If I misspell a word, people usually still get what you mean, if you miss-word a txt, you get into trouble.
Given your horrible spelling skills,
T9 may not be the worst idea :-P
Horrible, terrible, vegetable
Sorry, just had to say it :P
Yay...
more random nonsense!
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