Inspired by this Lookout Landing post, and my previous adventures with the Swype keyboard system on my phone, here is what Swype suggests when I type in Royals players’ names.
PITCHERS
Arguelles Artists
Barerra Careers
Crow Crore (wtf?)
Davies Favors
Hochevar Buckwheat (LOL)
Jeffress Here’s
Mazzaro Macao
O’Sullivan Occultism
Pucetas Puck’s (no doubt influenced by my frequent texting about the Glee character)
Soria Spurious
Teaford Teapots
Tejeda Regress (!!!!!)
Texiera Records
Wood Wtf (seriously.)
CATCHERS
Pina Pounds
INFIELDERS
Aviles Acolytes
Betemit Megabit
Getz Hertz (don’t it?)
Ka’aihue Configure
OUTFIELDERS
Blanco Banco
Eibner Dinner
Francoeur Franchisor
Swype already recognized these names:
Adcock, Chavez, Chen, Francis, Holland, Kendall, May, Pena, Bianchi, Butler, Escobar, Robinson, Cabrera, Cain, Dyson, Gordon, Lough, Maier, Ortiz
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Micah
March 11, 2011 at 1:02 am (UTC 0) Link to this comment
Ha ha ha. I might need to do this.
Minda Haas
March 11, 2011 at 1:04 am (UTC 0) Link to this comment
Go for it! Might as well have a blogger for every team do this!! :)
Mark LaFlamme
March 11, 2011 at 1:12 am (UTC 0) Link to this comment
Brilliant! But what the hell is a ‘crore?’
Minda Haas
March 11, 2011 at 1:14 am (UTC 0) Link to this comment
I have absolutely no idea! Google says it’s a number in the Indian numbering system, equivalent to ten million. Why is that in my phone?
A thing I hate about Swype is that it suggests a lot of French words. To Swype the word ‘forgot,’ i have to slog through like five different stupid French words.
I’m cool with it suggesting Spanish, because the phone is both English and Spanish. Not sure where all the French comes from, though.
Mark LaFlamme
March 11, 2011 at 1:17 am (UTC 0) Link to this comment
Well, my name is French but spellcheck will invariably change it to “aflame.” I’m okay with that.
Minda Haas
March 11, 2011 at 1:23 am (UTC 0) Link to this comment
Mark Aflame sounds so dramatic! Every second of Mark Aflame’s life is an adventure!
Mark LaFlamme
March 11, 2011 at 1:26 am (UTC 0) Link to this comment
I laugh now, but wait until I accidentally set myself on fire. Have a feeling the irony will not soothe me.
Venu Reddy
March 11, 2011 at 1:12 pm (UTC 0) Link to this comment
Yeah, the Indian numbering system gets a little bizarre. You go from 10,000 to 1 lakh (equivalent to 100,000 – however you write it as 1,00,000) and then go to 10 lakhs (10,00,000) then to 1 crore (1,00,00,000) which as you pointed out is 10,000,000. The software was probably written, in part, by Indians, which is why it probably spits this out.
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