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iPhone Keyboard Leads to Typso

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the see-get-it-i-was-being-funny dept.

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."

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  1. Typso by Echolima · · Score: 5, Funny

    Did you use the keyboard to poast tihs?

    1. Re:Typso by oyenstikker · · Score: 5, Funny

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 Your ./ privileges have been revoked.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

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    2. Re:Typso by stoolpigeon · · Score: 2, Funny

      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.

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    3. Re:Typso by Shadow+Wrought · · Score: 5, Funny
      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.

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    4. Re:Typso by cadeon · · Score: 2, Funny

      I read that as "Post tits"

    5. Re:Typso by A+nonymous+Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

      uficking

      Is that a uTypo or an iTypo?

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    6. Re:Typso by jc42 · · Score: 4, Funny

      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.

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  2. Obligatory link by mrjb · · Score: 5, Funny

    Obligatory.

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    1. Re:Obligatory link by Alphager · · Score: 5, Funny

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

    2. Re:Obligatory link by brain159 · · Score: 2, Funny

      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

    3. Re:Obligatory link by Ben174 · · Score: 2, Funny

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

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  3. Re:I hate the l337 txt culture by mrjb · · Score: 4, Funny

    George W. Bush?

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  4. Target Market by keithpreston · · Score: 2, Funny

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

  5. Firmware upgrade idea. by Radon360 · · Score: 4, Funny

    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>

  6. Re:I hate the l337 txt culture by smallfries · · Score: 5, Funny

    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

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  7. Sexy technology Business Sense by ZipprHead · · Score: 2, Funny

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

  8. Re:Sexy technology Business Sense by Mr.+Underbridge · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

  9. Re:I hate the l337 txt culture by Rik+Sweeney · · Score: 2, Funny

    Whatever

    CU Next Tuesday :)

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  10. Re:I hate the l337 txt culture by jmilne · · Score: 3, Funny

    I believe the appropriate response would have been Dan Quayle.

  11. Re:What a crappy joke by boarder8925 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Typso? Are you kidding me? That's too easy.
    Typso facto?
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  12. Re:I hate the l337 txt culture by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    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.)

  13. Re:I hate the l337 txt culture by dgatwood · · Score: 2, Funny

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

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  14. Re:I hate the l337 txt culture by Wordsmith · · Score: 3, Funny

    And therefore you must acquit.

  15. Re:I hate the l337 txt culture by daybot · · Score: 2, Funny

    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.

  16. Re:I hate the l337 txt culture by Tokerat · · Score: 2, Funny

    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?

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