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Ah, the penny drops at last! "Re-establish", not "Rest abolish". Oh the perils of predictive text. Although once you master it, it's a piece of coke.

Never mind, FTN, as Ronnie Barker said when imitating the Rev. Spooner, 'god bless the queer old dean'.

Surely you meant 'peas of cake'?  ;)

No comment I am kong of predictive text

Never use a phobile moan to post sensitive stuff, exactly because of the productive features. My post from Shirehampton came out as Showjumping, to BNM and others' amusement.

The Reverend Spooner, who enthralled his flock by telling them that "the Lord is a shoving leopard", is thought to have referred to me as a shining wit.

Pass the Bucks Fizz, sweetie.

I have, err, taken the liberty perhaps of moving these particular posts here to 'the lighter side'.  ;)

That was predictable!!  ;D

For some reason my phone, which claims it learns from what I type, has a habit of changing busy to busty.....

Careful what you write, Bob ... I've heard that predictive text often re-uses words that have been used in previous conversations

I saw some screen prints of some of the perils. One that made me laugh was a girl sent a message saying "I'm lesbian now" to her boyfriend. Should have read "I'm leaving now"

I've seen another which should have said "locking you out" but the locking was replaced with licking.
Fortunately I have never been caught out I dont think.

<pedant alert>

I don't think this a predictive text fail richwarwicker, but I note that you, along with a large part of the English speaking internet community use the term should of (and also could of, would of) in place of should/could/would have.

Language is a dynamic thing and this usage may become an acceptable norm, but to me it just does not read right. In speech it sounds okay because of the similarity with the contraction. For example, should have is contracted to should've.

It doesn't read 'as correct English' either.   :D

2 rite m8 i'm wiv u ;D

Oh my sainted aunt ! A pensioner using txtspk !. 'Whatever' (followed by obligatory shrug of the shoulders) will the younger generation think ?!.
I had a text once.... inviting me to a 'hot sax ( as in jazz) session'.  Unfortunately the vowel in sax got changed ...and no, it wasn't at six either..... ::)

I have now modified my post to keep you happy  ;D
For people who hadn't seen my post, I had typed "should of" instead of "should have".

One of my friends had a brilliantly bad one last year. We had arranged to meet at the ODEON in Bath. So when the bus dropped him off outside he text me saying:

"I'm hard where are you?" Which should have read: "I'm here, where are you?"

Needless to say, he will not live that one down. Ever.

Bob's ongoing interest in that particular subject is confirmed:


 ;) :D ;D

Such amazing powers of recall you have CfN.  Its almost as if you were taking an interest!  ;D

I'm finding it difficult to keep abreast of this thread, so I'm giving up on it.

I wish my mamory was as that of cfns

:)

Predictive text isn't the only modern-day peril. Voice activated software should also not be relied on when sending e-mails.  May be apochryphal, but the story abounds of the man who e-mailed restructuring proposals to his sceptical staff. He concluded it "I want your input on this", which appeared as "I want urine put on this".