The perils of predictive text

thetrout

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Re: The perils of predictive text

« Reply #15 on: March 23, 2013, 11:16:05 »

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.


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Chris from Nailsea

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Re: The perils of predictive text

« Reply #16 on: March 25, 2013, 22:50:01 »

Quote from: grahame on March 22, 2013, 09:34:36

Quote from: bobm on March 22, 2013, 09:19:41

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

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

Quote from: bobm on March 24, 2013, 18:10:40

It led to the immortal occasion when a lady driver shouted out of her cab window to the Town Centre inspector "What am I?" "36C" came the reply, much to the amusement of passing shoppers.... Grin


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Re: The perils of predictive text

« Reply #17 on: March 26, 2013, 07:37:09 »

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


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trainer

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Re: The perils of predictive text

« Reply #18 on: March 26, 2013, 09:06:56 »

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


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BerkshireBugsy

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Re: The perils of predictive text

« Reply #19 on: March 26, 2013, 12:42:37 »

I wish my mamory was as that of cfns


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TonyK

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Re: The perils of predictive text

« Reply #20 on: March 27, 2013, 21:31:28 »

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".


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