Random phone text

[ander]

My son and I have phones with Google Keyboard, where you can compose texts quickly by "drawing" the words:

So we've been doing this thing that's kind of fun: sending each other random texts by letting the keyboard guess what we're trying to write. I'll do a couple right now:

Firth found Oleg's eyeglasses immune to Cyndi's wasted interview.

Integrated TVs adjust plywood twig images for credit injury and insurance exhaust.

As you drag, the keyboard "guesses" various words. When a word appears that you want, you lift your finger to add it, or press Backspace and try again. You may deliberately add whatever small connecting words you need.

(Now that I think of it, this is somewhat keyboard related and thus not completely off-topic, so sorry about that.)

[SamirD]

That's pretty cool!  Reminds me of the old handwriting ocr built-into the old palm PDAs--I loved that way of 'typing'.

As far as guessing--if it was just random letters, I'd have clue, but the words make it even tougher! 

[ander]

It's also funny seeing the phone try to guess what the heck you're writing.

When my wife says something to me from the other room, and I can't quite hear it, I always repeat back what I think she said. "What's that? You want me to ostracize the eggplant?" It really annoys her, which of course is the best reason to do it.