Your Letters
16:06 UK time, Monday, 22 September 2008
Is predictive text being used in ordinary speech these days? Every time I visit a customer representative or a member of the medical profession these days, they listen to one or two words I say and then automatically give me a set response to something similar, but different, to what I am actually saying. It is intensely irritating.
Rob Falconer, Llandough, Wales
I had two pound coins in my purse today. I looked closely after reading and one of them is definitely dubious - the edge lettering looks almost handwritten. If I hadn't read the article, I wouldn't have thought to look. You made me £1 poorer.
Susannah, Northampton
The problem with forged pound coins is not them, it's what to do with them after that (. If you hand it in, you're a pound down; if you pass it on, you're laughing. A paradigm case of an individual/collective rationality problem.
Rory, Grimsby
HaHaa! Gotcha Paper Monitor. And just when you thought it was safe to let slip a very local little saying. "Getting the monk on", eh? Places you clearly from the Doncaster Area, or at least South Yorkshire. Never heard that expression anywhere else. So, a hardy Northerner is it. Fancy working down South: there's posh.
Roy Bennett, Abergavenny
Paper Monitor, it's "hmph". For its brevity and the implication that one is so grumpy, one won't even spare breath for a vowel.
Susannah, Northampton
Am I getting cynical or does anyone else think that George Michael's drug bust is just the publicity he needs in view of his upcoming autobiography release (Quote of the day)? Sorry? I'm sure he won't be when the large advance cheque lands on his doormat. Har-umph.
Becky, Iasi, Romania
Probably a silly question, but in , how does one sit on their back? It is mentioned a couple of times, and I would have thought that you sit on your backside. Sitting on your back is more commonly called "lying down", isn't it?
Martin, Bristol, UK
Can anyone answer Richard's letter of the 12th? I too don't get the winning caption. Is it just an in -joke by psychology students messing with our heads?
Phil, London
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