The Average Vocabulary of a Texter
Posted in Current Events on 01/03/2009 07:54 am by RonnicaI know that I don’t have the largest vocabulary in the world, but I would like to think I have a reasonable grasp on English vocabulary. I’m sure this is helped by the hour or two I spend reading every day and the fact that I often read classics.
However, this apparently is not the norm of the American people, or at least the people that use the same model of phone I use. Only occasionally do I find a word that Blogger doesn’t know, and even less common do I find a word that Microsoft Word spell check doesn’t know (it especially happens when writing seminary papers…clearly Word has never been to seminary), but I find words that my phone doesn’t know (specifically the T9 predictive text function) on almost a daily basis.
Words that I’ve recently discovered were not in my phone’s vocabulary:
Bawl
Yeppers (I said I had an extensive vocabulary, haha)
Roomie (Blogger doesn’t recognize this nor “yeppers,” sigh)
Blog (I know!)
Another question about the T9 function: it’s supposed to give me the words in the order of most frequent use, right? How come when I go to type “jen” (a word I have to use pretty often) does it give me “ken” and “leo” before “jen?” Aren’t there like 40 bazillion Jens out there, many more than Kens or Leos? I mean really, I only “know” one Leo, and that’s only if you can count famous people.
What words have you been surprised is not in your phone/blogger/word processor?
