Word of the Day: Mobilion number
Defined on http://hardbutnot.blogspot.com/ Mobilion number- An integer which only becomes interesting when typed into a *spell-as-you-go* mobile telephone.
example: 34789 739 233428
He also defines: techtic (n)- The faint repetitive behaviour of a true geek when excited. e.g. hand waving, swaying back and forth, nodding furiously, or saying "arguably".
Be careful clicking around his sight. He led me to a number of 'blocked' pages.
Oh yes... people from the USA apparently refer to mobile phones as 'cell phones' so you'll need to bastardise the word 'Mobilion' in some way.
But you've got plenty of experience doing that with every other word in the English language, so I need not offer any advice. ;-)
cheers!
'mike' on Fri, 20 Aug 2004 03:34:45 GMT, sez: Aon't get it. :-(
'synapticnerve' on Fri, 20 Aug 2004 03:57:25 GMT, sez: Have a shower.
Then you'll be a clean sex addict !
'sg' on Fri, 20 Aug 2004 04:01:36 GMT, sez: cheers synaptic -- you're quick.
sorry mike -- no clues.
'mike' on Fri, 20 Aug 2004 04:20:28 GMT, sez: Let me rephrase my non-understanding. I get the anagramic nature of using phone numbers to represent words. (I'm not sure if this is true everywhere, but in the US, digits on phones have always had letters associated with them, except Q and Z, and phone numbers are often given as words, e.g. 1-800-BUY-THIS.) My question has to do with the technology of mobile phones, I think: is there a way to get the phone itself to cough up the word?
'http://www.mikepope.com/blog/' on Fri, 20 Aug 2004 04:21:36 GMT, sez: By which I mean -- sorry to use your bandwidth for my lamitude here -- I don't get the "spell-as-you-go" aspect of things. Then again, I don't use my phone for texting, like, ever.
'sg' on Fri, 20 Aug 2004 04:32:04 GMT, sez: Oh, i see where you're coming from Mike.
yeh -- it's a text messaging thing.
Most mobile-phones have an automatic 'spell-as-you-go' mode that you can use when writing text messages. On some phones it's called 'T9', or 'predictive text'.
It sorts through all of the possible words that you might mean given any combination of numbers and determines the most likely words.
When you first use it, it's an annoying feature, but once you're used to it, it lets you write text messages very quickly.
'hardbutnot' on Fri, 20 Aug 2004 08:59:51 GMT, sez: 842657 367 843 5465.
and you us'ers need no new word. you use ours. (but 'selticks' looks like a winner if you want one)
'http://' on Sat, 02 Oct 2004 14:37:57 GMT, sez: <html>
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