To T9

[Mullins, Bill]

Jay Leno recently had a competition between text messagers and morse
coders.  Coders kicked ass.

Video, etc here:

http://www.makezine.com/blog/archive/2005/05/video_morse_cod.html

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> This should be added as a verb.
>
> To T9 (T9ing, T9ed, etc.) is to send a message with a cell
> phone using T9 mode.
>
> In T9 mode, you don $B!G (Bt worry about getting each letter.
> You just press the key with the letter you have ONCE. When
> you finish typing a word, the cell phone converts it into the
> most likely word.
>
> So for "beg", you would type 234 and the cell phone would
> convert it to "beg".
>
> Since many combinations are ambiguous, this leads to errors.
> Here's a story
> from: http://www.collisiondetection.net/mt/archives/000892.html
>
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> Marlowe, it seems, hates eggs. He was walking home got an SMS
> from a friend asking if she could borrow some eggs. He tried to type:
>
> i have eggs but i can't vouch for them since i only bake with
> them and i haven't baked in a while ... but when he looked at
> the keyboard, he realized that T9 had mucked up several of
> the words. Instead, it read:
>
> i hate eggs but i can't touch them since i only able with
> them and i haven't baked in a while.
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>
> Other T9 errors the site mentions are
>
> Pint=Shot
> Cider=Cheer
> Home=Good
>
> Benjamin Barrett
> Baking the World a Better Place
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