"Research In Motion" - maybe not!

This entry is a departure from it's usual highlights of touring with Elliott BROOD, but bears temporal relevance, and perhaps greater entertainment value: I hereby release my 2010 best-of Blackberry spellcheck list.

2010 was my first year with a smartphone. I am enamoured by the many benefits of owning a Blackberry 9700 BOLD, but equally amazed at it's sheerly retrograde spellcheck mechanism, especially in emails. One of my favourites is the reappropriation of it's own "bbm" (which stands for Blackberry Messenger) to "bum". Is that supposed to stand for "Blackberry Unmessenger"?

The BOLD 9700 spellcheck is quick exhibit it's inferiority by separating compound words, redirecting swearwords and generally being unhip to new jargon that most of it's users are applying en masse in their daily usage. The user then gets to affirm or deny if they really meant to type that word. Duh.

C'mon Research In Motion ! Live up to your name and invent an app to address the vernacular of the text-able !

And now the list :

blog = blob

tweets = sweets

tweeting = twee ting

texting = testing

Skype = Skye

bbm = bum

facebook = facebook

myspace = my space

Groupon = Group on

yay = nay

XO = SO

XOXO = SOCKS

meds = mess

strepthroat = streetcar

videographer = photographer

supermodel = super model

whateva = what eva

no probs = no props

rumours = rum ours

relist = relish

Tunisian = Tension

Congolese = Congress

Pakistanian = Pakistan ian

Latvian = Latin

Estonian = Estrogen

Belorussian = Beloved

Brisbane = Briskets

Cranulla = Granola

Thur = Thug

DeGrassi = Degrees

CSI = CPI

asshole = assume

shit = shot

fuck = duck