When T9 Goes Bad
As seen on my mother’s cellphone (taken with crummy iPhone cam), she was trying to text my father she’d save him a plate for dinner by texting “I have a plate for you”. Can you guess what her clever Samsung Rogers Vision phone suggested instead?
I have a slave for you
How politically incorrect. Yes, Samsung I’ll give you that P-L-A-T-E and S-L-A-V-E both can be typed through the numbers 75283, but what word do you think most people are most likely trying to type? Furthermore, my mother couldn’t figure out how to use an alternate word or change the auto-correction feature, and I couldn’t either. She ended up sending the message anyway, figuring he’d get the idea. (He didn’t) When T9 doesn’t work, it really doesn’t work.
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I have a similar (less offensive, though still embarrassing) problem when T9 chooses the word “in” before the word “go.” Which means that I sent a message to my best friend that said, “Do you want to in out with me tonight?” Her response was: “That is the lamest euphemism ever.”
^^^ LOL
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Hm, I had a Samsung with a T9 before my RAZR and my Curve, and all I had to do was to press the down key and the T9 picked the next word. On the RAZR, it was the over key, as suggestions were available.
As for changing the default, I don’t know any phone where that’s possible. The phones have mostly “sentient” dictionaries nowadays that pick up which word you type most - or they just ignore that and stick with the factory defaults.