July 12, 2005

'And' not 'Cod'


This phone has rubbish predictive text. That is a fact.

Ok, I'm gonna have a gripe. I use my mobile phone quite a lot, even though I've got a land line, I tend to use my mobile even when at home. The reason? I text more than I ring. Its took me a few years to realise the benefits of texting, I was always one of the you-might-as-well-talk-and-get-everything-said-in-one-go brigade but then i realised I could keep in touch with people but not have to be bothered to talk to them!

So whats my gripe? Is it that stoopid kids not are growing up unable to spell bcuz thy r txtn n sA gr8 n l8r n lol instead of actually writing?? No, although the more i think about it, Yes. My original gripe is about my phone and how ridiculous the predictive text is. Becasue I H8 that kiddie text language I always write things out properly, so predictive text SHOULD be the prefect answer. Its not, not on my phone, because my phone has decided that any words I want to use won't come out instead it'll say something stupid. For example: And, a common word, a word I use alot, possibily more than any other. Does my phone come up with 'and'? No, its comes up with 'Cod'. COD!! When do I ever want to use 'cod' in a sentence unless putting my order in down the chip shop? Not very often. So what happens? I either send off a message that makes no sense making me look like a right fool or a have to press a load of buttons to make it say 'and'. What a hassle! No wonder kids are saying 'sod it' and typing something else. I've come up with a short list of other words where the same thing happens:

AND is COD
THE is TIE
HOME is GOOD
IF is IE
HE is IE
SEE is PED
ME is OF
BAR is BBQ

And so on and so on. These are only the ones I can remember. I might put others on as I find them. ARRGGGHH!!

2 Comments:

At 7:59 AM, Blogger bob francisco said...

what you need to do is type in the word you actually want loads of times, scrolling down the predictive text for it each time. just do this one time, in one text, you dont even have to send it off. you see the fone learns that this is the most popular word you use for this combo of letters and then puts it first in the heirarchy for this combo. at least it does on my fone which is a similar model

 
At 6:33 PM, Blogger James said...

No, thats what it should do. Mine doesn't. it is shite. I have tried.

 

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