Techneurosis: A Public Service Announcement

[andy_dufresne]

I just googled the word "coming" to make sure I hadn't somehow misspelled it. Why would I do such a thing, you ask? Because my cell phone didn't have it in its dictionary. Moral of the story: inanimate objects can cause you to tentatively consider propositions that, coming from any flesh and blood human being, you would immediately dismiss as

Comments

[crumblingredsky]

Hrmmm. That unnerves me because, although i don't actually communicate with you hella frequently (stop rolling your eyes), i like to believe that i can whenever i want to. You're getting this problem fixed, yes? *extends clingy claws of death*

Secondary worry: Did you by any chance, or did your fucky phone by any chance, attempt to call me twice around seven? i got two "no number" calls, one of which i picked up but didn't hear anything from, and the other which i missed. i can't think of anyone else whose number/name doesn't show up on my phone but you.

[kisekileia]

That's bizarre.
Your cell phone has a dictionary? What kind of phone is it?

[jenngo]

my crappy phone can't grasp that i use the word patio more than i use the word ratio. so the predictive text always offers me ratio first...it makes me blind with rage, so i just started telling people to meet me on the ratio instead of the patio. stupid phone. it also can't grasp the fact that some numbers go together...like 15 or 35, or god forbid, 30! trying to tell tim that i'm having lunch at 1:30 kinda makes me want to die.

my stupid dictionary has some of the hardest words that i can think of that i'll ever text, and yet, it doesn't recognise crappy, bastard or jackass. those are important words!!

[crumblingredsky]

My phone didn't recognize fuck, for a long while. i had to break down and teach it fuck, but it knew ass, for some reason. And it constantly says i'm trying to type "he" instead of "if," so i'm always saying "he you want to meet me at 1..." Does your phone have, like, a "spell this" option so you can teach it a word and it will recognize it? When i taught it "fuck" i happened to need a capital F, so now even in the middle of a sentence it will be all "What the Fuck?"

Oddly enough, i had to teach it "walkman" (it happens to be a much-used word for me) so that it would stop thinking the word was "wallnco." Yeah, that's a really useful word.