Teaching The iPhone Your Vernacular

[ShotgunSteven]

Something I have noticed when texting with the iPhone. It does pick up new words and incorporate them into the Auto-Correct, but the speed with which it does so varies widely.

For instance, the use of the word "bleah." It took at least 75-100 uses for the stupid thing to finally pick the word up, and quit correcting it to "bleak." On the other hand, it picked up and incorporated the word "coffeegasm" after only one or two uses. I can see why they might not have it incorporate words that are close to existing words after only a couple of tries, but really, 75+? I am not that fumble fingered.

I am curious if the new words the iPhones learn are networked and catalogued, so that they pick up slang terms more quickly as they develop.

 

[aphex]

I'm more interested in how you managed to work the word 'bleah' into 75-100 text messages LOL

Back on topic, I've wondered this myself, as it seems to vary for myself as well.

 

[ShotgunSteven]

Originally posted by: aphex
I'm more interested in how you managed to work the word 'bleah' into 75-100 text messages LOL

Back on topic, I've wondered this myself, as it seems to vary for myself as well.

I bitch about my job.

I need to come up with some more words that are one letter off of established words, then come up with some more unique ones to test this out. I wonder if the fact that "coffeegasm" contains a complete and a partial word has anything to do with why it was accepted so fast?

 

[ShotgunSteven]

Now it seems to actually be FORGETTING words. Not new ones I taught it, but words that it already knew.