Teaching a Phone to Talk (Part 3)

I have a smartphone. The auto-correct feature for typing is pretty good and allows you to add words to the dictionary it might not otherwise have. As it would be, I have 217 words that I’ve added to my dictionary and most of them are pretty silly/unnecessary. Here is the third part (check out the first and second parts, if you missed them), letters P-Z, with commentary:

• Palpatine – Senator/Chancellor/Emperor from Star Wars
• peacing – How else would you leave someplace?
• peeps – My people, my people made of marshmallows
• penguins -Wait, plural for “penguin” isn’t “penguins?”
• Phillies – Philadelphia, The
• Philly – Philadelphia
• podcasts – I agree with my phone on this one, I hate this word
• probs – probably
• punkass – I can’t remember using this word but I’m happy I did
• Quaid – Was I talking about Dennis or Randy? Probs both.
• Quincy – “City of Presidents“
• rafting – Taking a flimsy boat down a river
• rapper – PaRappa?
• refreshes – Typical internet browser lingo
• retweeted – Tell me you like what I have to say
• rhinos – Careful when they charge
• RI – Rhode Island
• rizzle – real
• Rodriques – Did I spell it wrong? I still don’t know
• Roggie’s – A bar in Brighton, MA
• RSVP – short for ReSerVPation
• RT – see, retweeted
• screwy – Not quite right, maybe a kind of OJ/vodka drink
• scrobble – Last.fm does this with your music
• Sealab – 2012
• sext – Sexting, sex texting
• sexting – see, sext
• Shawn – a name
• Shins – a band
• shit – excrement
• shittiest – the most excrement
• sho – see, fo
• sign-up – Get on the list!
• slackers – People who don’t do much
• smartphones – They can’t be too self-aware…yet
• spinners – Do people still put these on their cars?
• stank – Fill a place with a smell
• steakhouse – a house, for steaks
• Stoughton – The one place I’ve appeared on television as a comedian
• sunblock – Safety first
• t-shirts – opposed to v-necks
• taco – a taco
• TBS – Turner Broadcasting Station?
• Thursdays – More than one day of thirst
• tix – Tickets…for the show
• tofu – Made up food, made up word
• told – Wait, what? I taught my phone the word “told”
• trending – …and another word I’m confident in
• Triggs – Anthony
• tripods – More than one midget…
• trippy – “cool, freaky, groovy, amazing“
• trolls – Villains of the internet
• ttyl – Talk to you later!
• Tuesdays – More than one Tuesday
• Tweetdeck – The Twitter app I use
• tweeted – The thing I did with Tweetdeck
• tweeting – The thing I do with Tweetdeck
• UCB – Upright Citizens Brigade
• UCBeast – Upright Citizens Brigade Theater East
• ur – your (for the simple minded)
• v-neck – opposed to t-shirts
• videogames – My all time favorite past time
• w/e – whatever
• WAAF – “The only station that really rocks!“
• week’s – owned by the week
• weirdo – Weirdo Al
• WFST – A radio station I (thought) made up, where “Everything is Fast!”
• whitener – For your teeth, certainly not mine
• whooped – ‘cuz Stone Cold said so!
• wildebeest – That herd of animals from The Lion King
• Wolverine – Hugh Jackman’s secret identity
• Worcester – My home town!
• WTF – What the Fun?
• WUT – WHAT?!?
• wut – what?!?
• xylophone – I had to check, but this is the correct spelling
• za – and finally, my arch nemesis.