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Thread #126295   Message #2804907
Posted By: Amos
06-Jan-10 - 11:14 AM
Thread Name: BS: Term for predictive text mondegreens
Subject: RE: BS: Term for predictive text mondegreens
My iPhone, Mr Happy, does everything I want. This may be simply because I took the trouble to learn how to operate it.

APps is modern jargon for "applications" which in turn is 1980's era technospeak for "the use to which a computer software package may be put" or "software for a particular use" as distinguished from other classes of software such as operating systems, utilities or object files created by applications.

As for these predictive fuckups, I like predickups. It has a pleasant slangy ring to it and is racy.


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