{"id":654,"date":"2005-03-01T09:45:49","date_gmt":"2005-03-01T09:45:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lewisdartnell.com\/en-gb\/?p=654"},"modified":"2005-03-01T09:45:49","modified_gmt":"2005-03-01T09:45:49","slug":"the-joy-of-text","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lewisdartnell.com\/en-gb\/2005\/03\/the-joy-of-text\/","title":{"rendered":"The Joy of Text"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lewis.dsruptiv.net\/en-gb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Txtonyms.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-375\" alt=\"Txtonyms\" src=\"http:\/\/lewis.dsruptiv.net\/en-gb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Txtonyms.jpg\" width=\"115\" height=\"170\" \/><\/a>Despite its ubiquity, text messaging is still infuriatingly fiddly. Mobile buttons seem to have been designed for only the nimblest of virtuoso-pianist fingers, and a hurried txt often results in a confused mess of superfluous letters. Even if every care is taken over precision-pressing, there is still the spectre of the predictive text synonym (coined here as the textonym or &#8216;txtonym&#8217;) to contend with &#8211; the set of words in English that are made up of the same sequence of key-presses. For example, pub and rub are both &#8216;spelt&#8217;\u00a0<i>7\u20118\u20112<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>Here, an exhaustive search of all possible txtonyms is performed, in order to warn people of the worst pitfalls to be avoided as well as show up some of the more humorous coincidences.<\/p>\n<p>Download full <a href=\"http:\/\/lewis.dsruptiv.net\/en-gb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Lewis_Dartnell-Txtonyms.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">pdf<\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"StumbleUpon\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_twitter_via=\"Lewis_Dartnell\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"The%20Joy%20of%20Text\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite its ubiquity, text messaging is still infuriatingly fiddly. Mobile buttons seem to have been designed for only the nimblest of virtuoso-pianist fingers, and a hurried txt often results in a confused mess of superfluous letters. Even if every care is taken over precision-pressing, there is still the spectre of the predictive text synonym (coined [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,4,36,41,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-blog","category-feature","category-null-hypothesis","category-science-writing"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The Joy of Text - Lewis Dartnell<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"http:\/\/lewisdartnell.com\/en-gb\/2005\/03\/the-joy-of-text\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Joy of Text - Lewis Dartnell\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Despite its ubiquity, text messaging is still infuriatingly fiddly. 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