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Words that are clearly words but your phone disagrees.
Hat:
Who the fuck actually uses the dictionary feature on their phone? I spent a month using it, constantly entering words into it and by the end of that month it was still twice as fast to just punch the message in without it.
Also I am sure at some point I compiled a massive list of Firefox spell check omissions, but I can't appear to find it anywhere.
Jimmy the Squid:
I use the dictionary on my phone actually - to such a degree that I can barely type with it off. I don't abbreviate anything (contractions don't count obviously) and it works just fine. It helps that here text messages are a reasonably cheap and efficient way of communicating. I've had long and pretty in depth conversations with people just by text message alone! Seriously guys we live in the future. Get with it.
thehollow:
--- Quote from: bachelorchow on 03 Apr 2008, 22:33 ---I am the roommate in this situation!!! Nothing annoys me more than when my friend calls and leaves a message saying "call me back when you get this", knowing FULL WELL that thanks to the not-so-recent advent of caller ID, i knew he called so was going to call him back anyway. So I end up making 2 phone calls instead of one.
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I never leave messages that just say "call me back," that annoys me to no end as well. My roommate knows this. But when I call him and leave him a long message that had an actual purpose, it really bugs me when he completely disregards my message and then calls me and makes me repeat the whole thing.
One of my friends was telling me that their professor's policy was that if your phone went off in class, you had to get up and dance to it.
Hat:
I think the fact that we are talking about our personal preferences regarding SMSing is a pretty good indication that we are all "with" the future right now. Or the present if you want to get technical.
Also despite the fact that this makes me a hypocrite, for all my ballyhoo about fluid comprehension being the only real necessary judgement for a form of communication*, I cannot bring myself to abbreviate anything in a text message, because it just feels fucking lazy.
*I might be the only person here who doesn't consider text abbreviation to be an actual impediment to understanding though, I've had people tell me they seriously lack the ability to read m8 as "mate" and tho as "though" as words which makes me wonder about their reading comprehension skills, but whatever that is a whole other argument. I suppose you could argue that people of lesser intelligence are less prone to literary comprehension and more prone to phonemic comprehension, and therefore more likely to sound written words out in their head, but I find it pretty easy to switch between the two.
Narr:
--- Quote from: Hat on 03 Apr 2008, 22:32 ---Who the fuck actually uses the dictionary feature on their phone? I spent a month using it, constantly entering words into it and by the end of that month it was still twice as fast to just punch the message in without it.
Also I am sure at some point I compiled a massive list of Firefox spell check omissions, but I can't appear to find it anywhere.
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I second this.
I've never had an issue with the autotext of phones because I disable it first chance I get. I find it superfluous.
RE: Phone messages-
I only ever leave short messages anymore because no one ever calls me back anyway.
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