If I use certain english words in my android google keyboard app — words that not many americans use — and Android made me add it as a custom word?
I had only one thought. Why is this word not in the dictionary? All words are in the dictionary except this one, for some reason, because it is a valid English word. And I am being made to add this word to my dictionary. This might live in my Google account, and conceptually queried to put me on some list. All the flip of a switch away, provided some government overreach (above or below the board).
Now, as I type this, I realize that Android's English dictionary of words must have been truncated at some reasonable limit, beyond which the words are archaic and not often used... But I didn't realize this at the time.
And it wasn't even a bad word. It was a word that certain religious support groups tend to use, to categorize their identity. Just like how alcoholics have their slang. When you hear the slang word, you know it's probably an alcoholic. So you wouldn't tend to really trust anyone that uses that slang word.
I used the slang word. I added it to my Android's personal dictionary, in a lapse of judgement. Who knows where that dictionary list syncs to? A data lake within reach of government queries?
I should be a writer.
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