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Talking into the phone to send emails

7 years ago

They drive me crazy!! A neighour always talks into her phone instead of typing up an email, and they're one long paragraph without any punctuation, spelling mistakes (because it's verbal) etc.

She often vents and things upset her so she'll air it to me, and I get frustrated trying to decipher her message. I hate no punctuation.

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aok27502

7 years ago

I use my talk-to-text all the time. But I do insert punctuation as sephia mentioned. I also edit to correct spelling and punctuation. It's just so much faster and easier than typing with my thumbs. But I agree with you. There is a poster in another forum who apparently does it this way, and her postings are one long run-on sentence.

A funny thing happened the other day. I was leaving a voicemail, and I said "blah blah blah period." Oops

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sephia_wa
7 years ago
Some talk-to-text programs allow for the person to include punctuation. Like the person speaks, says "comma," then talks some more, then says "period." Etc. To start a new paragraph, you just say "new paragraph." It depends what program your neighbor is using though. She may be using something that would literally spell out "comma" or "period." That would be even more confusing!
Lindsey_CA
7 years ago
Jasdip, why don’t you send your neighbor a reply, typed out as one long paragraph with no punctuation or capitalization. Perhaps if she gets a first-hand experience with it, she will see the errors of her ways.
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And because the edit function doesn't work, I can't add a period to the end of that last post.
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I have a dear friend that also does that. I have to play like I am going to forward the email and then go in and make paragraphs just anywhere to have a space. Sometimes the words that come though are very funny if you figure them out. The no punctuation is what is so bad.

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rob333 (zone 7b)
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I'm more confused by some I've seen that insist on holding the phone in front of their face, in public, while having a conversation with a speakerphone? Why? I was glad when people stopped yelling into their phones. Now this? And it's the type of person who wears sweatpants in public (another, really? for me. I get wearing them. Just not in public).
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She needs to finish each sentence with the word "period", then a period will appear. Or if a comma is needed in a sentence, she adds the word "comma" behind the word that needs the comma.
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It's very important to proof read those messages before sending. A friend of mine was in a hurry to get a message to her hubby, unfortunately that's when the phone interpreted one of the words as a curse word, she was mortified.

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