Clive Thompson muses about “T9 Freudian slips,” when intended words are substituted for others by your cell phone’s predictive text interface, subverting the meaning of your SMS entirely.
He was walking home got an SMS from a friend asking if she could borrow some eggs. He tried to type:
i have eggs but i can’t vouch for them since i only bake with them and i haven’t baked in a while
… but when he looked at the keyboard, he realized that T9 had mucked up several of the words. Instead, it read:
i hate eggs but i can’t touch them since i only able with them and i haven’t baked in a while.
Read – T9’s Freudian slips [CollisionDetection]
