{"id":4857,"date":"2013-10-01T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-10-01T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/?p=4857"},"modified":"2026-01-15T18:18:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T18:18:07","slug":"t9-and-the-next-generation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/?p=4857","title":{"rendered":"T9 and the Next Generation"},"content":{"rendered":"

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We all know that language
\nchanges over time. Words come into a lexicon because of new inventions or processes
\nand other words leave, becoming obsolete, as objects and customs disappear. Word usage
\nalso changes to facilitate pronunciation or to move from an irregular to a
\nregular formation. For example we rarely, if ever, use the past tense of climb,
\nas clomb. It is now climbed. We can easily understand many of these
\nchanges. They are, for the most part, logical.<\/span> <\/span>
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Enter T9, one of the predictive text
\napps for phones with 9 digit keypads. Ironically, the logic behind T9 is to move
\ninto common usage, the words you use most often when sending a text. However, it
\nobviously doesn’t move fast enough for our “power” generation!! This
\nis how the expression “cool” became “book.”<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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\nApparently the keys 2665 can be
\neither “book” or “cool.” Logically “book” comes
\nup first, as a suggested word in T9. Rather than taking the time to hit another
\nkey, thereby moving to the next suggestion, which would be “cool,”
\ntoday’s (cool) users realized that they would miss a beat and decided to stay
\nwith the original word offered, which was “book.”<\/span><\/p>\n

Now we were already dealing
\nwith a slang term “cool” meaning trendy, which has now morphed to an
\neven slanger (can I say this) term, “book.” The verbal logic is not
\nthere. However the tech logic is!! <\/span>Ironically, book has become cool at a time when books (hard copy) are becoming less cool. The tech world may be out of touch with the real world. Then again, the tech world may be creating a new world, with it’s own <\/span>language and logic.<\/span>
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\nHere is another word shift in the making, 4663 – good, home, gone<\/span>.  In the future, will “He’s home;” really mean, “He’s gone.” Time will tell. <\/span>
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