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New Lingo? How Book!
As we text-messagers know, there's a mode that anticipates the word you're typing (1 keystroke per letter), rather than pecking out up to 4 keystrokes for each letter. The cellphone guesses the most common combination of those keys. If it guesses wrong, you press the "Next" button until the correct word appears.
My favorite wrong guess: When I try to type "cool," my phone says "book."
This is where you come in, Stay Free blog-reading demographic: Help me make "book" the new "cool." If your phone says "book," don't hit Next. Just leave it, brother. Then, start working "book" into conversations. "That youtube link you sent me was totally book." Or "You're writing a book? Very book!" You get the idea. It'll be viral.
That's my two cents. Well, two cents to receive, ten cents to send.
Posted by Jack Silbert on 09/04/2006 | Permalink
Comments
My phone, for whatever reason, wants to fill in "cool" as "cooling", which led to this exchange:
me: I'm in line now
friend: there soon, just got off train
me: cooling
Posted by: Damian Chadwick | Sep 4, 2006 2:08:23 PM
Cooling. I like it! Kids, feel free to use that, too.
My best almost-message: Was reporting on a date that hadn't gone as well as hoped. Typed "No kiss" which came out as "On lips."
Posted by: Jack Silbert | Sep 4, 2006 6:13:01 PM
"home" is "good".
the best is that on the way to spelling "karaoke", the first 5 letters spell "japan".
Posted by: dj empirical | Sep 5, 2006 2:30:36 PM
I knew things were going the wrong way in my life when attempts to spell "Canada" on my cellphone kept coming out "cancer".
Posted by: confusedbee | Sep 5, 2006 7:58:08 PM
hand = game
red = see
boy = any
gun = htm
yarn = warm
bona fide = bomb died
So, "cool boy with a gun in his hand" becomes "book any with a htm in his game"
Posted by: icebox | Sep 9, 2006 4:18:22 AM
