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T9 Screwups |
axxxr
Joined: Mar 21, 2003
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From: Londinium
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Ever used T9, the "predictive-dialing" way of typing text on your mobile phone? As you probably know, it works in a cryptographic fashion. It tries to figure out what you intend to write based on the most common words that can be spelled using the numbers you're pressing.
But of course, it sometimes makes mistakes -- as when you're trying to type an uncommon word. Indeed, most forms of artificial intelligence break down whenever they encounter behavior outside some fairly strict norms. But as Cameron Marlowe notes on his blog, sometimes T9's mistakes can be oddly literary -- or even Freudian.
Marlowe, it seems, hates eggs. He was walking home got an SMS from a friend asking if she could borrow some eggs. He tried to type:
i have eggs but i can't vouch for them since i only bake with them and i haven't baked in a while
... but when he looked at the keyboard, he realized that T9 had mucked up several of the words. Instead, it read:
i hate eggs but i can't touch them since i only able with them and i haven't baked in a while.
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marik
Joined: May 31, 2004
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wat i find annoyin is when i type 'me' it automatically goes to 'of' meanin i hav 2 press another button jus 2 get 'me'
i kno its jus doin its job but it gets very fustratin after a while......
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lovewalrus
Joined: Dec 22, 2002
Posts: 480
From: LoveWalrus
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You think T9 is bad-ever tried Motorola's iTap? Dear sweet mother of god it's bad! It's easier to use multitap! LOL can you imagine how hard it's gonna be when they bring out speech recognition-especially since English is one of the hardest languages in the world to learn- ie. Where, were, wear..... How the hell are phone's going to cope? LOL
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shinyspoon
Joined: May 03, 2002
Posts: 132
From: London
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Hmmm.. My worst mistake was when I sent a message to a female acquintance about an invite list.. I said "..I want to add you, and add add your sister as well.."
Try it on your phone! It took a helluva lot of explaining!!  |
Elrond
Joined: May 14, 2003
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From: Slovakia
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Yeah, T9 is sometimes not so good to use, but I had once a Motorola with iTAP. Man I was so glad, that  has T9. When you compare these two methods, then T9 is much better.
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Posted: 2004-07-04 07:52
K750i, Nokia 6120c and a HP iPAQ hx4700 
