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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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