Writers and Keyboards

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Well, here I'm again. I had done it before a few many hours ago, but now I think I'll get more closely on what it means to write on a typical on-screen keyboard of a smartphone. *Well, first of course is the size of the keyboard. You wouldn't find an elaborate or even tangible thing. It's just that there's a 'miniature keyboard' of nonphysical existence hanging inside the screen of your smartphone. It's supposed to be pretty responsive to keystrokes (typing of keys) and pretty much everything a real keyboard of a PC would be, - yeah but not always... *The problem you face while typing on it is that first of all you have to constantly check the suggestions that are provided by the grammar and the spell checker. It's pretty lame at times that if you're writing on an elaborate topic then you're bound to make mistakes. For example while writing Yu a Chinese name the grammar corrects it to You.. So if you're writing an email to a Mr. Yu then the grammar will use the auto correct function and replace the Yu with You...and send the email to some Mr. You. More serious problem occurs when that Mr. Yu replies to a Mr. Gilmore asking about the mistake.. So let's look at the sample email that was sent to Mr. Yu: Dear Mr. You, Greetings from YourFinanceAdviser, We are happy to announce that You have finally been selected for the multi-payments bank option. It is to be noted that You have achieved this by being an esteemed member of Our loyalty program. You would be happy to know that as an extra benefit You are now a gold-level member of the program. In case You have any further queries You are advised to contact Us anytime. We would be happy to help You. Regards, Mr. Gilmore Etc., See how it turned out! Of course it would have been avoided by switching off the auto correct option and the capitalization option for pronouns. *The next problem concerns the typographical mistakes related to the keyboard. The keyboard is so squeezed up that you are going to commit silliest of the typos you have ever seen. So, for example, if you're texting your friend asking them to lend you some more money - then because of the small size of the keyboard, you may accidentally type somewore Monet - or if you're someone with progressive myopia, having conditions such as cloudy or blurred vision, it would turn out even disastrous... Something to do with asking money for calling a girl...now you get it? This typo problem persists even when you change the view to landscape mode, so there's no escaping it. On a more serious note, though, it messes with the efficiency of writers like us, who at times spend their hours working around an article or two using a smartphone. Well that's one pretty "not so easily typeable keyboard," isn't it?