Wednesday, October 10, 2007

Call for Spanglish T9

So I have a cell phone that I use sometimes. I even have entered the 21st century and text on it sometimes. Here's my pet peeve: it makes you choose Spanish or English for the autocomplete function. Now I am an English speaker. In fact, what I speak in Latin America and Tucson's south side could barely be called Spanish. But even so, I find myself putting Spanish words into text messages far more often than one might think, and I have to spell them out. Considering most Spanish speakers I know, especially teenagers, tend to use a mix of the two languages liberally, I doubt I'm the first person who has wanted this technology.