Predictive text

I have never like predictive text, it upsets me. There is only one thing that upsets me more than predictive text and that is someone telling me I should use it!

I type very fast texting in the usual way, I can choose to shorten words or spell them correctly (depends who I am texting, some people are very offended by proper spelling and vice versa) but with 'dictionary' (it's easier to call it that for this blog) it demands you spell things in full...and sometimes it can't understand the simple word you have entered and throws a hissy fit (no...maybe that's me!) which leaves you scrolling through a list of similar sounding words....by which time I would have sent the text away otherwise.

Maybe it's because like the stubborn old goat I am, I have become comfortable with my way of doing things and with all these 'younguns' nowdays telling me to use this new (apparently easier) way of achieving what I want I get angry and tell them to leave me alone to text in a dark corner!

Strangely it seems that older people are more likely to use dictionary though...in a survery conducted by me (involving 2 adults and 2 minors...well what do you want? I havn't the budget for a bigger survey! all those clipbaords and the such!) I noted both the adults would rather use dictionary compared to the two minors (one of which is me! Just because I don't like to think myself an adult quite yet!)

You can norm tell if you have recieved a text from someone using dictionary as some words can seem very out of place in the sentence, leaving you to work out the missing words...might as well rope in lily savage and make a bloody gameshow of it!

Not only does it take a little longer to type out what you want, the reader can end up taking longer to read it as well!

I say no to predictive text, it doesn't help me and we have had some heated debates in the past. I think i have spent about 5minutes altogether with it turned on, and I got rather cross and made myself a cup of hot tea with an umbrella sticking out of it. Take that!

REMEMBER, SAY NO TO PREDICTIVE TEXT!

until next time... xx