"T9 allows users only type using one key per letter, Baars said,
estimating that T9 software is embedded in 3.2 billion mobile devices
worldwide and has been a standard feature on most cell phones since the
late 1990s.
A team of linguists created the software's database
using algorithms, or rules for forming words, Baars said, and they then
erased any profanity the algorithms created at the request of consumers
and mobile device manufacturers.
Nuance has gotten recent
complaints from consumers in Germany for having Nazi-related and
anti-Semitic words programmed in the T9 software. Swedish consumers
have also complained about compound profanity, in which the word in
question is a combination of two non-profane words, she said.
However, Baars said, "if the word is truly offensive in the culture, we will take steps to remove it from the software."
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T9 software, the automatic word machine for text messaging worldwide, deliberately takes out swear words. A company spokesperson explains in this article, but doesn't address the obvious free speech restrictions on drunken texts to exes.
