I have just bawled my DH....

I cannot bear predictive text! I am a total text pedant too; each text has to be correctly punctuated and spelling checked. My DGC think it is hilarious.

But at least I can text quickly, unlike Theseus who needs half an hour per sentence. But he only uses it to send corny jokes to DGC to wind them up.

I never can use the predictive text it ends up spelling words that are nonsense on my phone so its ordinary text for me. Thankfully OH can text so we are all sorted.lol

Oddly enough my predictive text phone can't spell a lot of the words I use so I have to shift it to the old way of doing texts.

I think the texting bit of your phone is bust, greatnan. Can you make emergency calls on it? If so and if that's all you want, nae bother

I've been using predictive for years - the kids laugh at me but I find it much easier. I hate textspeak!

Mine only cost £15 but it does predictive text. I only replaced the previous one because I dropped it once too often and dislodged something vital.

DD and I do most of our communicating by text. Other people would struggle to understand them though as we have developed our own shorthand and can convey two or three sentences with just a couple of words. It works best for us as I don't like to ring in case she's nappy changing or putting youngest for nap etc.

DH can't text or even put credit on his phone !! I do loose patience with him sometimes and will ask DS to do it for him as I just can't be bothered.

But doesn't that mean buying an up-to-date phone? I like the one I bought for £10 from Sainsburys.

Predictive is the way to go!

I know how to do it, I just can't get it to work!

3 weeks in hospital made me learn how to text, but I haven't managed punctuation yet. I can do capitals, so a few spaces before a capital means it's a new sentence.
And I'm sure I could learn if I could be bothered, but I do not see the point except for emergencies. I also refuse to do text-speak.

Greatnan
Try doing two little presses in quick succession. That will give you the second letter.
Three little presses gives you the third letter.
Four little presses....numbers
Five little presses - don't go there unless you want circumflexes, greek letters, japanese characters etc

On my previous mobile I was useless - tiny keys and screen, and you had to the three-presses-for-a-different-letter thing, so I never sent texts. Now that I have a new phone, bigger keys with only one letter on each and a big enough screen to see what you have typed before sending it off, I am much better.

Also I get 500 free texts a month, that is a big incentive.

Oh, dear - I am another duffer. I keep my mobile in my backpack when walking and in the car when driving. I have never been able to send anything but the first of the three letters on each key. It is a very old phone - a castoff from one of the grandchildren.

Like it, tanith

DS2, aged only 40, has just learnt to send texts. It's a new experience receiving messages from him. Other DS has always been in touch with his feminine side but don't tell him I said so.

I regularly get a blank text from one of my brothers in reply to a text from me. I think he presses 'reply' and it does! He also has a computer which he uses to store photos.

For year, I was the only one who could use the video recorder but I am ashamed to say that we have an internet enabled tv and a sound bar, neither of which I can fathom at all

Ah !! poor man he must be sharing the shed with mr glamma he is of the same mind when it comes to techi stuff but ask him anything concerning the science bit of soap making and detergents and he's your man.

It's not just men.... I've only just mastered the art of predictive text after years of having a mobile phone. . I feel very humble....

If he has his phone with him send him a text asking if he'd like a nice cup of tea and wait (even if its all day) till he replies by text of course

And dont take him a cup of tea until he has sent his text

Fgs jings You are not his mother! Of course any grown man with even a very small brain should be able to text!
Lock the shed door until later

Its a man thing jingle if they can find someone to do these things for them they refuse to learn. But before your breakfast is just a step too far.

My DH has a very technical job he can program the most technical heating/air conditioning/ventilation and gas systems so different parts work alongside alarm systems and computer run systems for whole huge office blocks and baulks at setting the sky plus and before that the video sent him in a mild panic, sure it was a case of well I dont need to know because you do it.

jingle mine is just the same and he is a clever chap too. I think it's a man thing. I've tried to teach him to text several times but he still can't do it and always asks me to do it for him. Not worth exile to the shed though!

Scout leader hangs a Garfield tea towel up at camp kitchens which says: "Do not speak to me until I've had my second cup of coffee."