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[–] marine_mustang@sh.itjust.works 28 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Multi-tap is what you’re thinking of. T9 was the predictive algorithm, where you only had to hit each key once, so “fluent” could be entered as 358368.

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[–] stoy@lemmy.zip 11 points 1 year ago (1 child)

T9 may have worked fine for english, but as a Swede, I remember it being shit for compound words like:

"Slussvaktarbostadshembiträde"

"järnvägstationskiosk"

"Diskrimineringsombudsman"

These are obviously obtuse examples, but all are valid swedish words.

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[–] guy@piefed.social 3 points 1 year ago

Huh, I remember it working pretty well. But then I never had to write slussvaktarbostadshembiträde heller.

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