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I did not spend twenty-seven minutes composing a text message.
I started composing a text message, forgot about it, and then finished composing it twenty-six minutes later.
The engineer, who was among those killed, was apparently composing a text message when he ran a red signal and the train collided with a freight train at a combined speed of more than 80 miles per hour.
Indeed, as Menand notes, composing a text message is a kind of art: "It's like writing a sonnet (well, sort of): the requirement is to adapt the message to immutable formal constraints".
INSIDE PITCH Catcher Kelly Shoppach met with Terry Collins on Sunday to discuss a story that appeared in The Daily News in which Shoppach was described as "deeply involved" with composing a text message to Boston Red Sox ownership expressing unhappiness about Manager Bobby Valentine.
Stuttering usually begins not with a child's first words, she said, and "not even with two-word utterances like 'doggie bark,' " but "when you're starting with the grammar of the language, prepositions and helping verbs and little words of the kind that you leave out" when composing a text message.
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"Now when you compose a text message or search using your voice, Bing will return results twice as fast as before and increase accuracy by 15percentt," announces Bing's speech team in a (possibly dictated) blog post.
Anyone who has ever written in Chinese on a computer, or composed a text message on their phone in that language, knows the typing process is not nearly as simple as in English.
As the video below demonstrates, you can use the new interface to search the Web by speaking your search query, compose a text message or dial a contact by simply talking instead of typing.
Version 1.2 of the just.me iOS app now includes selfies as the first option when you hit compose message — above compose a (text) message — to speed up posting that awesome #me shot.
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