The Extremely Specific Words Your Phone Knows

fridgeboy

My phone knows some good archaeology words and phrases like projectile point, cupriferous, processualist, palimpsest, uniformitarianism, and taphonomy.

antillese

fridgeboy Those are some really good words! I’m going to go learn them.

kory

fridgeboy oooh, I’m happy to see the word “palimpsest” come up because I’ve been contemplating starting a thread about video game palimpsests (or incorporating that into the video game vestiges thread). I have to brainstorm some more…

Mine is pretty boring, but it mostly consists of medical terms and shorthand. iOS impressively threads the needle of only autocorrecting normal words to medical terms and vice versa pretty often, which is endlessly frustrating, occasionally amusing, and probably at least a little bit possibly dangerous… A benign but consistently annoying one is that iOS seems gleefully hell-bent on turning every “and” into “abd” (as in abdomen).

Syzygy

A lot of erotic neulogisms tbqh

Moon

I started consistently all caps-ing the phrase “THE ALGORITHM” when referring to the invisible math that manipulates our lives so often that now my phone auto-caps any use of the word “ALGORITHM” and I’m just fine with that.

exodus

My phone has so many romanized japanese words in it that I couldn’t even begin to name one, but one thing I find amusing is that now that I’ve started typing in spanish on my phone a lot more, sometimes a typo gets autocorrected to spanish, like I wrote “as-is” but missed the dash so it became “asis” so my phone changed it to así - which is fair enough!

Also the other day I was trying to type something that started with a capial G, and since I don’t usually capitalize things on my phone, it was like “oh, he means to type G-Vector.”

G-Vector is a crappy panzer dragoon-like that looks pretty good in stills but is pretty bad and doesn’t even have good music

The artists did their job! that’s about it.

Syzygy

My phone has so many romanized japanese words in it

This is more of what my phone doesn’t have in it, but #multilingualthings: I continually have the experience of reflexively going to swipe-type a Japanese word / name and getting gibberish and thinking to myself “Oh, of course it doesn’t know that”.

fridgeboy

kory palimpsest is a great word! Obviously not specifically an archaeology word but it gets used at a much higher rate than typical

beets

Just found out my phone knows the incorrect spelling of answer: awnser. This will never be confusing.

LeFish

My keyboard is full of Welsh words (extremely similar alphabet), and I have some unusual words come up quite often like “chwyrligwgan” (carousel / merry-go-round), “ffrwchnedd” (banana - archaic term), and “ymlacio” (relax).

Otherwise, I get loads of videogames related terms come up but by far the most common are Viewtiful and MegaTen. I probably have some problems!

rejj

Well this was an interesting search result

LeFish

rejj Welsh is full of nonsense words like that; not quite slang but something that’s just become something that’s accepted.

I guess the most well known nonsense word, certainly in the UK anyway, is “poptyping” (literally: “ping oven”) for microwave when the actual term is “meicrodon”. Jellyfish has two common parlance nonsense names too, “pysgod wibbliwobbli” (literally: wibbly wobbly fish" and “cont y môr” (literally: “c-bomb of the sea”) when the actual term is “slefrod”. What a colourful language.

In keeping with the thread I have “pysgod” come up a lot too.

compositehiggs

I’m old and never type on my phone unless I need to, which basically means only to text with my wife about my child.

retsuza

I like to talk about boardgames a lot, and my phone is constantly correcting “board” to “Baird” (yes, always uppercase).
It must be something I accidentally taught it, but what the h*ck is “Baird” ??

antillese

Was reminded this morning that my phone knows a lot of character and faction names from the table top games I play.