It was announced today that the Inventor of predictive text has died. His funfair is on Sudial
Sad news
Nov 12, 2014
11 Replies
That made oi larf ;-)
Very google!
Bill
I assume you meant Sundial.
I've not used it for some time, it may well be predictive, but the predictions never matched what I wanted to say. Brian
Mate's other half's name is Anna. Don't type and send that on a T9 keypad unchecked, unless ye want twitching nervous types pointing cylindrical long objects at ya.
I'm sure others have noticed certain humour sites posting replies top offic ail letters and formn with interesting spelling erros which are meant to be funny, but if you look at them it's obvious a significant number are due t o preedictive text AND OR spell checkers auto correcting, to something it t hinks you mean. I've found this problem to be annoying on something like a phone or ipad. Maybe it's worth creating a custom dictionary.
anteater?
On a related topic, two words I use a lot are analyser and analogue. I tend to abbreviate them, then when I read it through I feel I need to alter it.
Bill
British English spelling.... American English-set spell-checker? Are you a radio ham, perchance?
My phone thinks she's called Coma. Anna is before bomb...
Andy
to what - anal?
Owain
Hog sorbet toad heroic thang.
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