When you type something that Samsung doesn't recognize, it'll give you a few options to replace. Most of the time my phone just says "screw you. I'm replacing it anyway". The other day I was trying to do my photo challenge and the word was brown. Brown. For some reason I couldn't type it. Like so many times, my fingers kept hitting the next letter over. Instead of brown, I kept typing nrown. Now I understand that the Samsung dictionary might not recognize the hashtag with fms_ that comes before the topic, but it was giving me options to replace nrown.
I typed: #fms_nrown
Here's what Samsung suggested and my take on the reasoning:
1. nrown - Did you really mean to type nrown, Melanie?
2. round - I'm not sure what that word is, Melanie, but it sounds a lot like round.
3. green - ...
Green, Samsung? GREEN?? Then I remembered the old prank call we did as kids:
Victim: Hello?
Caller: Hello. Could I please speak to Mr. Brown?
Victim: You've got the wrong number. This is the Green residence.
Caller: I'm sorry, I must be color blind.
That's when it hit me. Maybe Samsung has a sense of humor and is trying to be funny.
I tested my theory.
First let's try misspelling a word. Hamburger. Seems like an obvious typo to me.
But not to Samsung.
Let's try something simple and using the next letter over.
Okay. That's better.
What about colors?
Nope. It's not a color thing.
What if I try a word starting with B and use N, like with nrown?
Nalloon instead of Balloon, with the photo hashtag.
Then I noticed that adding the N to the end of the word gave me another word selection.
Let's just try it plain and simple. B words with N, no photo hashtag.
Clearly there's no problem.
Conclusion: My phone is a smartarse, trying to be funny.
And I really do want breakfast.
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