switch the keyboard to spanish. Yo means 'I' so it should work since it's a real Spanish word... and not some lame rap lingo.
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I can't get my iPhone to learn the word "Yo"
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it's been used so long that it's just... like the word "uh"
it's nothing to be praised like it's a 'cool' thing to say. it's like typing with no caps, like most of us do.
i dont really understand why people had to jump on this guy's case for using a small word.
I also wish you could add things to a dictionary, or turn off the auto correct altogether I hate when I type lol and it turns it into LOL, and w/ to a/. really annoying to have to go up and hit the x
You really are full of yourself. It's annoying because you're also an idiot and your arguments don't hold up.
I agree on one thing - internet forums are full of (unwanted) opinions. It's easier to behave like a jerk when you're hidden behind your anonymity (as I am in the process of showing). However, why is it unreasonable for the OP to expect an answer to his question alongside those opinions? Make fun of his diction all you like, but also try to answer his question instead of just trying to get cheap (digital) laughs. His was a genuine query that showed up a real problem with the iPhone - I've had similar issues.
Why should he make a concerted effort to stop using 'Yo' in every message? Who are you to pass such a judgement? Do you think that because you write in full, grammatical sentences on an internet forum (truly a waste of time, but I've also fallen into that habit) you somehow have a greater authority to comment on people's lexicon? What if the OP is from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and the word is a part of his culture and upbringing?
Moreover, the word 'Yo' is not, as you imply, "shortened, abbreviated and condensed". It is not an abbreviation at all, but rather a short greeting or exclamation (amongst other things, as the illuminating Wikipedia article pointed out). Far from being lazy, the OP may start every SMS with 'Yo' and follow it up with language that would not look out of place in a Shakespearean sonnet.
'Yo' is also not a product of modern culture and modern mediums of communication, as you again imply. As the handy OSX widget confirmed for me, it is a natural exclamation that was first recorded as far back as late Middle English.
Finally, why are you comparing asking how to save the word 'Yo' on MacRumors to asking how to score some heroin on a medical forum? That is a little extreme and ridiculous, if you ask me. I know that you're being purposefully hyperbolic, but that only means you have further to fall flat on your face because you're comparison is inaccurate. Since you were being unnecessarily pedantic about the OP's choice of language, I will do the same to you and take apart your comparison.
A medical forum is concerned with improving people's health, and increasing doctors' understanding of people's health. It is therefore reasonable for a doctor or medical student to refuse to explain to the addict how and where to find heroin because it is proven to severely damage mental and physical well-being. Internet forums however - full as they are of abbreviations, truncations, lack of grammar and so on - are hardly bastions of what one might call 'the full and proper use of the English language'. One would not expect to be criticised as a matter of course for using slang here. Obviously, that is not to say that a person couldn't be criticised for this on forums, it's just that your comparison is idiotic.
(by the way, now I come to think of it, no doctor in their right mind would "suggest not using heroin" to a possible addict, even on a forum; that would be the height of stupidity and irresponsibility. Most doctors would indeed direct the person to a place where they could, in some cases, "score" heroin (or an equivalent), but in a controlled environment in a hospital or a rehabilitation clinic.)
yeah, it's annoying as hell that it won't learn a standard abbreviation like that...
LOL I agree.
That shot irritates the duck out of me. It's such a pain in the ads, I don't get why the he'll Apple can't recognize that some of us enjoy profanity.
LOL I agree.
That shot irritates the duck out of me. It's such a pain in the ads, I don't get why the he'll Apple can't recognize that some of us enjoy profanity.
I agree. Oddly enough, my first gen iPhone was completely okay with my profanity. My 3G iPhone apparently got religion.
Can I trade it in for an atheist version?
What is wrong with all of you people? He came on a computer forum asking for help about his iPhone.
Do you get off on being pretentious under the extremely transparent guise of linguistic superiority on computer forums?
Relax.
Do you get off on being pretentious under the extremely transparent guise of linguistic superiority on computer forums?
Relax.
google.com -->
"define: pretentious"
"define: guise"
"define: linguistic"
"define: superiority"
Oh.
Clearly, most of us aren't smart.
i think all iPhones should come with profanity in the dictionary.
its pretty common, he'll, all of us use it!
it should be included.
and why are you guys using abbreviations like "w/" when you have a full qwerty keyboard and have to switch to symbols to add the "/" when tis probably just easier to type "with".
i can understand using "w/" on a 9 digit alphanumeric keypad, but not a full qwerty where you have to switch keyboards.
oh, and since when have people used "yo" so regularly anymore?
odd...
its pretty common, he'll, all of us use it!
it should be included.
and why are you guys using abbreviations like "w/" when you have a full qwerty keyboard and have to switch to symbols to add the "/" when tis probably just easier to type "with".
i can understand using "w/" on a 9 digit alphanumeric keypad, but not a full qwerty where you have to switch keyboards.
oh, and since when have people used "yo" so regularly anymore?
odd...
google.com -->
"define: pretentious"
"define: guise"
"define: linguistic"
"define: superiority"
Oh.
Clearly, most of us aren't smart.
or just hover your mouse over the word and then press control+command+D