the wonders of predictive text

Ever been bamboozelled by mobile phone predictive text?

Sometimes it’s frustratingly incapable of guessing — or even learning — the simplest words. Like ’swann’ for example. Now, I’m prepared to admit that my phone is going to need to be taught it. But when it constantly suggests ‘ryano’ as the preferred alternative, something’s gone wrong.

One the other hand, I was pleasantly suprised to discover that my phone didn’t need to be taught the word ‘geopolitics’. Apparently that’s a common, everyday word for most mobile phone users…