iPhone Keyboard Leads to Typso

jfruhlinger writes "One of the selling points of the iPhone was its revolutionary touch-screen full keyboard. But a study has shown that text messages sent from iPhones contain significantly more typso than messages from phones with other kinds of keyboards — and aren't entered any faster."

Typso

[Echolima]

Did you use the keyboard to poast tihs?

Re:Typso

[oyenstikker]

You have no sense of humor. Your ./ privileges have been revoked. Please go post on YouTube.

Obligatory link

[mrjb]

Obligatory. [bash.org]

Re:Typso

[stoolpigeon]

dot slash? this entire thread is going to be a mess and every time it gets pointed out someone will claim it was a joke.

Re:I hate the l337 txt culture

[mrjb]

George W. Bush?

Target Market

[keithpreston]

Could it be that the IPhone is an attractive product to people that can't spell?

Re:Typso

[Shadow Wrought]

Is there no iSpellchecker on the iPhone?

iThere iis, ibut iit iputs ian i"i" iin ifront iof ieach iword. iIt's ipretty uficking iannoying.

Firmware upgrade idea.

[Radon360]

Maybe they can include this feature on the next firmware upgrade: When the phone hears you utter an expletive, it will delete the last word for you. Not only can we continue to propagate bad cellphone etiquette, but also enhance it with people regularly cursing at their phones in public places while texting.

<grin>

Re:I hate the l337 txt culture

[smallfries]

Those of us on the right side of the pond would say it happened when our former colonies broke away and has been getting worse ever since. Depends on how you colour it I guess

Re:Obligatory link

[Alphager]

I prefer http://bash.org/?5300 [bash.org]

Sexy technology Business Sense

[ZipprHead]

Yeah, but my IPhone has gotten me laid, can you say that about your blackberry?

Re:Sexy technology Business Sense

[Mr. Underbridge]

Yeah, but my IPhone has gotten me laid, can you say that about your blackberry?

I'm sure that blackberries can also be used to place calls to escort services.

Re:I hate the l337 txt culture

[Rik Sweeney]

Whatever

CU Next Tuesday :)

Re:I hate the l337 txt culture

[jmilne]

I believe the appropriate response would have been Dan Quayle [wikipedia.org].

Re:Typso

[cadeon]

I read that as "Post tits"

Re:What a crappy joke

[boarder8925]

Typso? Are you kidding me? That's too easy.

Typso facto?

Re:Obligatory link

[brain159]

Crap, undoing mis-clicked moderation by replying.

(and I was even using a regular PC and mouse, not an iPhone).

Please imagine an extra +1 of funny

Re:Typso

[A nonymous Coward]

uficking

Is that a uTypo or an iTypo?

Re:I hate the l337 txt culture

[Anonymous Coward]

Yes, but we spell "schedule" and "aluminium" exactly the same, but Amerkins pronounce them completely differently, apparently failing to notice the "h" in schedule or the second "i" in aluminium... (And I should know, since I am a merkin myself.)

Re:I hate the l337 txt culture

[dgatwood]

Daniel Webster? I suppose the Devil's in the details, eh?

Re:Typso

[jc42]

Funny, but when I saw the same "typso" spelling used twice, my immediate thoughst were to wonder whether the writer speaks a variant dialect of English in which plursal are indicated by an infix -s- in or before the last syllable of worsd.

I've read of langusage that do plursal this way, but I've never studied any. Maybe some lingusist should find the author's (authos'r?) language community and do some field studsy on its membser.

Re:Obligatory link

[Ben174]

I prefer http://bash.org/?35955 [bash.org]

Re:I hate the l337 txt culture

[Wordsmith]

And therefore you must acquit.

Re:I hate the l337 txt culture

[daybot]

Being Canadian.... being made standard in Britian... Americans...don't deseve all the critism they get for them.

Agreed. Clearly more criticism should be aimed at Canadians.

Re:I hate the l337 txt culture

[Tokerat]

There's a difference between accent/dialect and being a lazy bastard.

-or and -our have quite different pronunciations, and the way we pronounce color over here, sounds nothing like colour. It has nothing to do with being lazy. This difference is more like cockney (sp?) vs. standard British English.

...However, I bet lazy has a lot to do with all that extra effort you put into verifying the spelling of "cockney", right?

pwn3t!