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S12, Ep2 How to Fail: Jacqueline Wilson

How To Fail With Elizabeth Day

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Why Do You Hate Predictive Text?

As a writer, you find something very discombobulating about a machine anticipating what word you might want. And inevitably, i don't use text language, and find it quite repellent. The predictive text never seems to be able to predict exactly what i want to say - so i'd much sooner just tap it all out slowly. It's forever suggesting to me that i should express myself in a different way. And it just annoys me, i want it to know its place. I'm very interested in something you said earlier on about hating predictive text. Why do you hate it? Is it because, as a writer,you find somethingvery discombobulate about a

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