T9

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From: Hakim
Subject: T9
Date: 12:53 on 14 Sep 2005
Mobile phone firmware may be firmer than normal software, but it's no 
less hateful.

T9 on my Nokia series 60 phone learns words I input.  But it doesn't 
like it, nosirree, if I have the gumption to input a word not in its 
default dictionary it'll only show it grudgingly, after first of all 
suggesting all the other possible words it knows, useful or not, or 
failing that, pulling some out of its arse: I want to type my name? 
Maybe I meant "Galio"?  No?  How about "Halio"?

Apparently this dublini shivuy pile of apar is the best phone OS, but my
previous phone (a despised Motorola) at least put my words on a level 
playing field, as well as saving me thumbstrain by offering autocomplete 
to the next longest possibility.  On the other hand, it would also 
assume that the number 1 was what I wanted at the end of the word rather 
than, say, a full stop, comma, or exclamation mark1

Neither, of course, even attempts probabilistic disambiguation of 
commonly botched pairs like good/home or me/of, never mind weighting 
mothers above members of female religious orders.

--
Galio Barrinckly

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