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I am learning to text! I can manage a limited range of syntax, though I'm still incapable of capitization or emoticons. As I am working on a primitive phone which doesn't give me a virtual Qwerty but makes me count keystrokes (and where I still need to turn off the predictive text EVERY GODDAMN TIME), I now understand the lure of "r u" instead of "are you."
But I will resist, I tell you. To my dying breath ... Except in emergencies ;-)
And I will always use the right "your."
8 comments:
Janine. Now I am disappointed in you. You can predictive text. Yes you can!
u can cheat in ur texts or u r gonna get sore thumbs! ;-P
My phone predicts only gobbledigook!
Anyway - who wants to end up on "Damn you, Autocorrect!"
http://www.damnyouautocorrect.com/13608/top-50-funniest-autocorrects-of-dyacs-first-year-part-1/
You have to keep pressing the button for more sensible options, J. You can reject the goobledigook. It's not the same as damn you autocorrect :)
But if you've seen the 'dude naw' response to the autocorrect suggestion of anal you can see that's all worth it :)
:-D
I spent months not knowing how to turn off predictive text. So long, in fact, that I learned how to make the most of it to speed up writing text messages. Admittedly, my phone is so old and clunky that its predictive text is not exactly predictive, what it does is read the keys you've typed and suggest the most likely word (and allows you to cycle through possibilities. This did mean my dear friend Heather stopped talking to me...
I dread to think what you texted her Chris! "Hello Heathen"?
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