Friday, April 06, 2007

mobile phone word tapestry

Like everyone, I seem to spend all of time texting people these days, to the consternation of the old people who I occasionally see shaking their heads at me on the train, as if I am doing something morally suspect, or worse, modern. But the more you text the more you realise how hopelessly insufficient the little dictionaries are on mobile phones, so I thought I'd start a new meme for anyone that can be bothered to join in. From A through to Z, here's an example for each letter of the alphabet I've added a word for. Apologies if they all end up being swearwords.

Austen
Blogged
Crappiness
Doherty
Eleanor
Fucking
Gatsby
Hungover
iPod
Jarvis
Knackered
Lout
Malediction
Nicole
Osama
Pasty
Reggae
Skiving
Thimbles
Unfurled
Wiley
XTC
Yay
Zimbabwean

So only V and Q still to be catered for. I'll do my best. Am I alone in finding that quite interesting? It's funny that I recognise a few words there that I use a lot. I'm wondering where and when I found it useful to mention 'thimbles' in a text, but there you go. Ali, Natalia, Dan, anyone else who's reading this - I wanna see your versions.

1 comment:

Clive Andrews said...

That's fantastic!

It says a lot about you and your interests - the things you have to teach your phone to say. I'd join in, but I can't seem to find how they're stored on my phone (any ideas on a Nokia 5140?)

I've been having some similar (yet different) thoughts on predictive texting. You've prompted me to blog them - (after I've collected my thoughts and/or got into the brain of my antique phone...)