Comments: WHY BOOK MEANS 'COOL'.

At Diacritques is a post dealing with this predictive phenomenon: deciphering the message "Pocket go big bag on kitchen floor can be pulled off stems and 10 mins soak go cold water will revive it".

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Posted by Karen at June 24, 2006 09:30 AM

Well, I *do* text, but didn't know anything about this angle! Rest assured, LanguageHat is definitely Book!

Posted by beth at June 24, 2006 12:16 PM

I now think of T9 characters in the same way as Han characters with different senses and different readings for a character made up of a specific set of strokes.

Posted by Andrew Dunbar at June 25, 2006 04:20 PM

I actually have some experience with this myself. I've sent a few texts letting people know that I would be good after a specified length of time. Of course, I meant to tell them that I'd be home...

Posted by codeman38 at June 25, 2006 09:17 PM

Here a similar phenomenon in Chinese is discussed. (See 2 messages at the bottom of the page; the discussion is in Russian.)

Posted by miram at June 27, 2006 03:52 AM