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Re: FN-FORUM whets the best way to get business
date posted 1st August 2002 23:02
well a 3 bedroomed house in camden is worth the amazonian basin, most of
borneo and an acre of redwoods...
----- Original Message -----
From: "john anslow" [EMAIL REMOVED]
To: [EMAIL REMOVED]
Sent: Thursday, August 01, 2002 10:52 PM
Subject: Re: FN-FORUM whets the best way to get business
LOL how many deciduous forests is 1 ships peanut worth nowadays?
John
David Eckersall wrote:
>fantastic, we should use predictive text for everything that we could
>finally get the average vocabularly down to under a hundred words.
>
>if civilisation ever collapses we'll be left with a race like the
>golgafrinchans from restaraunt at the end of the universe...
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Jamie McDonald" [EMAIL REMOVED]
>To: [EMAIL REMOVED]
>Sent: Thursday, August 01, 2002 10:01 PM
>Subject: Re: FN-FORUM whets the best way to get business
>
>
>The amount of people who cant use predictive text is stupid. I've shown
>quite a few where there going wrong and switched them to use it and now
they
>dont know how they texed without it. Its sooooooo much quicker.
>
>The problem lies in the habit of pressing the keys a few times for each
>letter. Like to get "e" without predictive u have to press the 3 key twice.
>but with predictive u would only have to press it once, becuase it knows
>what ur spelling (within reason ;).
>
>So to type "hello" press 4 3 5 5 6. Dont worry if its spelling it wrong to
>start with, cos it changes the word as it goes along to fit with what your
>typing! so just press each key once for the letter u want.
>
>Get used to it, it makes life so much more simple.
>
>Try this..
>
>8 4 4 7 0
>4 7 0
>7 6 0
>6 8 2 4 0
>3 2 7 8 3 7
>
>It would take much more presses to write that without predictive!
>Hope this helps u as it did my mates.
>
>Jamie
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Carla Boulton" [EMAIL REMOVED]
>To: [EMAIL REMOVED]
>Sent: Thursday, August 01, 2002 6:30 PM
>Subject: Re: FN-FORUM whets the best way to get business
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>>Nigell has that 'feature' on his phone and has never been able to work out
>>how to turn it off - damned annoying, plus it takes anyone over the age of
>>16 three hours to text anything anyway so why bother?
>>
>>Best abbreviation of a word yet for SMS/IVS purposes K? instead of OK?
>>Bizarre
>>Regards
>>Carla
>>
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>>on 1/8/02 4:08 pm, Andrew Mottershead at [EMAIL REMOVED] wrote:
>>
>>>You should try using my phone - it's got this pre-emptive function which
>>>I cannot get my head around. I try to key in "hello" and get "hide"....
>>>I now just phone the other bod up.
>>>
>>>regards
>>>
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>>>>-----Original Message-----
>>>>From: [EMAIL REMOVED]
[EMAIL REMOVED] On Behalf Of Paul J White
>>>>Sent: 01 August 2002 16:54
>>>>To: [EMAIL REMOVED]
>>>>Subject: Re: FN-FORUM whets the best way to get business
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>I agree that this can be a problem if you don't check spelling and
>>>>>punctuation before contacting a client. But this is ONLY a
>>>>>
>>>>forum does
>>>>
>>>>>it really matter is someone forgets to use
>>>>>
>>>>the
>>>>
>>>>>spellchecker?
>>>>>
>>>>Oh, so sloppy spelling and grammar are no good for clients,
>>>>but good enough for us on the forum? I disagree, as you owe
>>>>it to yourself and others to convey your message or question
>>>>in a way that is not open to misinterpretation or plain
>>>>ridicule. SMS is an exception, and getting a highly
>>>>condensed, yet understandable, message into 140 characters is
>>>>an art in itself.
>>>>
>>>>Paul (Asst. Chief Linguistic Pedant to whoever is in charge today ;-)
>>>>
>>>>
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