So everyone is familiar with T9 right? I'm just saying, I cannot use T9 for the life of me. I just cannot comprehend how it functions and how people are supposed to use it. I tried watching Michelle use it once and it was just beyond what I could process. She's spelling weird things, then deleting then redoing it, I just don't even know. I don't even know! I want to know who decided that T9 was something that would speed up the texting process.
When I had a phone that was just a dial pad not a QWERTY keyboard, I could send texts in a few seconds without looking and correct mistakes. I knew how it was done. It was so much easier than wait for T9 to guess what I'm going for. There's a chance all my problems are related to my inability to spell correctly, and thus T9 can't guess what I'm going for but even if I could spell, it assumes the words I'm going for are in the dictionary of the phone. Then I have to mess with adding things to the dictionary, it just seems like so much extra work to send a text. I don't know. I just like spelling things out on my own and asking a neighbor how to spell something if it's vitally important that I spell it right.
I remember talking to someone once about T9 and they had a big problem with peoples names. T9 apparently is horrible with names that aren't completely generic. He couldn't even spell 'Zach' correctly. He had to type 'zebra' and erase it. I'd get fed up with that. Knowing me, I'd tell the guy his new nickname is 'Zebra' for some stupid reason and then proceed to always call him that in my texting and sometimes in real life. I'm just lazy like that and mean I guess.
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