The joys of predictive text

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I typed 'innit' into my 'phone, and it suggested 'hongu'.

― Sexual Air Supply (Autumn Almanac), Friday, 20 August 2004 00:03 (twenty-one years ago)

Also, when I type 'soon' it suggests 'smoo'.

― Sexual Air Supply (Autumn Almanac), Friday, 20 August 2004 00:04 (twenty-one years ago)

'excelsior' comes out as 'excelsins,' which is mildly disturbing.

― Sexual Air Supply (Autumn Almanac), Friday, 20 August 2004 00:09 (twenty-one years ago)

'If' come up as 'he' first, which I find a bit odd,

And to get to 'pint' you have to go through 'shot' and 'riot'. Is O2 subtly trying to warn me of the dangers of drinking?

― Wooden (Wooden), Friday, 20 August 2004 00:17 (twenty-one years ago)

Here's what I get when I do 'pint':

shot
riot
pint
shou
phot
simu
shov
piou
siou
sinu
photocade

Don't ask me how the fuck 'photocade' came from 'pint'.

― Sexual Air Supply (Autumn Almanac), Friday, 20 August 2004 00:29 (twenty-one years ago)

Mine ends at 'sinu'. you must have a more advanced phone than me.

Everything after 'pint' would make quite a good name for a character in a fantasy novel.

― Wooden (Wooden), Friday, 20 August 2004 00:33 (twenty-one years ago)

'now' just gave me 'Mozilla'.

― Sexual Air Supply (Autumn Almanac), Friday, 20 August 2004 00:41 (twenty-one years ago)

beer is always "adds" in mine. which is like a synonym for more beer if you ask me. like "beer plus" sorta thing. also my friend shonz is "phony" and i am "hemp" (seeing as my friends call me "gems")

― gem (trisk), Friday, 20 August 2004 00:42 (twenty-one years ago)

I told my friend by text that I had just bought the pink panther movie on DVD and he's wondering why i am buying pink panties.

― Paul Kelly (kelly), Friday, 20 August 2004 01:33 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm always nearly sending "Gig gig gig thanks"

― Andrew Blood Thames (Andrew Thames), Friday, 20 August 2004 01:35 (twenty-one years ago)

Islington = Islinguam

I like the idea that there's an Islington-like island in the Pacific with easy access via the A1 to the Philippines and Micronesia.

― beanz (beanz), Friday, 20 August 2004 11:41 (twenty-one years ago)

coal
anal
cock

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Friday, 20 August 2004 11:42 (twenty-one years ago)

i was just talking about innit/hongu strangeness the other night...

xmas used to be wobs on early nokias. best one i've found is "jeophoguno" for kensington...

― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Friday, 20 August 2004 12:07 (twenty-one years ago)

FAP = Fancy a riot?

My friend Saji, who's Indian, was fairly disconcerted to find her phone suggests "paki" as an alternative to her name..

― Rubber Ogden, Friday, 20 August 2004 12:25 (twenty-one years ago)

i dont get hongu. i get immit.

― AaronK (AaronK), Friday, 20 August 2004 12:55 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't like the way I get 'rub' and 'sub' before 'pub'. Are people REALLY bringing up rubs in casual conversations, more than pubs?

Also the first five letters of my name come up as 'rabid'.

― Archel (Archel), Friday, 20 August 2004 12:59 (twenty-one years ago)

What I don't understand is that sometimes you can type in as few as 4 letters before it beeps and goes "aji?" or whatever. On the other hand, it's possible to get unwieldiness like "Conservatixjgjgjgjgjgjgjgjg" before it gives up and beeps at you.

― Markelby (Mark C), Friday, 20 August 2004 15:52 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/djw30/dasher/dasher.gif

BEST INPUT METHOD EVER

― ())(())()()()(()(LASER)()()()LA(Z)E(R)()()()((L)()()(A)(S(E)R()()()) (ex machina, Friday, 20 August 2004 15:55 (twenty-one years ago)

three years pass...

my phone predicts "grauniad".

― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Monday, 19 November 2007 11:13 (eighteen years ago)

Mine does Gerry as herpes, and I feel it's nice to text my husband on a Friday and warn him I'll be late him because I'm in the pub with herpes.

― ailsa, Monday, 19 November 2007 11:18 (eighteen years ago)

late home, not him.

― ailsa, Monday, 19 November 2007 11:18 (eighteen years ago)

no doubt I have updated my phone at some point in the last 3 years but it still annoys me that 'beer' is 'adds'. Surely 'beer' would be used far more often than 'adds' in the world of sms

― gem, Monday, 19 November 2007 11:23 (eighteen years ago)

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