User talk:Aerial.Dancer

Texting Terms
Dictonym:

I would like to propose the English word "Dictonym" for the words that occur when texting on ones phone with the "Dictionary On" featured enabled. Perhaps a word for this phenomenon exits already, but I have been unable to find one.

This is particularly true of certain phones, which don't "learn" the words you use most commonly. For example, when you have the "dictionary on" function enabled, and press 63 for "me", the 'dictionary on' will first give you the dictonym, "of". The dictonyn for of 46 "go" is "in". The dictonyms of 4663 for "good", are "home", "gone", "goof", "hood", "hoof".

Dicton:

I would like to propose the English word "Dicton" for the typos that occur when texting on ones phone with the "Dictionary On" featured enabled. If a word for this phenomenon exits already, I have not found it.

This is particularly true of certain phones, which don't "learn" the words you use most commonly. For example, today someone sent me text to ask if I had sent a fax, that they were waiting for. I meant to respond with "your fax is busy". I pressed 329 for fax but it gave me the dictonym "day". I accidentally sent the message, containing the dicton "your day is busy". This could have sounded sarcastic. The person might have thought I was telling them that they had nothing better to do than nag me to send that fax. If I could have said, "oh, I'm sorry, that was a dicton. I meant to say that your fax is busy." It would make things easier.

A typo occurs when you press the wrong key. With a "dicton" you have used the correct function keys but the error is the result of the 'dictionary on' feature and of course, lack of proof-reading. If somone does not use this feature, they may find these errors difficult to understand. I don't think that the word "dicto" will be very well received or may receive snickers, so dicton, which is sort for dictionary on and is similar to typo, is the word I wish to propose.

Some have argued that nobody texts anymore because everyone has a Blackberry. However, for "techno peasants, like myself, texting remains a way of communicating and I believed that a word that decribes this problem would make it easier to explain the ensueing, occassional miscommunications.

Aerial.Dancer (talk) 06:31, 3 March 2009 (UTC)