iPhone Keyboard Leads to Typso 394
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."
Re:Really? (Score:5, Informative)
Re:I hate the l337 txt culture (Score:3, Informative)
See you later (13 letters)
CU L8R (5 letters)
Re:But does it include that the spell checker fixe (Score:5, Informative)
Re:I hate the l337 txt culture (Score:4, Informative)
Time for an Internet meme (source unconfirmed):
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Re:I hate the l337 txt culture (Score:1, Informative)
This made worse by the fact that the UK iphone speaks US English and can't spell perfectly ordinary words like 'colour'.
I have hell with my initials.. the iphone thinks I mean something completely different and keeps changing them, and I have to back up and put it back. Passwords are even worse - there you can't *see* it's changed it and it's only about the 30th attempt at entering it you realize what's going on.
Re:I hate the l337 txt culture (Score:3, Informative)
Re:I hate the l337 txt culture (Score:3, Informative)
http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=mg16221887.600 [newscientist.com]
See also this cached page [216.239.59.104] which also has an interesting discussion of the effect in other languages; it works in French and Spanish, but not in Finnish or Hebrew. Interestingly, I could recognise the language of most of the scrambled samples, and even read much of the French and Spanish without difficulty, and I'm by no means fluent in either.
Re:I hate the l337 txt culture (Score:3, Informative)
Found at http://www.metafilter.com/28301/Scrambled-Text [metafilter.com] after searching for "first last letter" rebuttal
Re:I hate the l337 txt culture (Score:3, Informative)
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/25/2350239&tid=167 [slashdot.org]
Re:I hate the l337 txt culture (Score:2, Informative)