Autocorrect spells trouble for those with hang pets
Smartphones aren't really all that smart, so beware before you click the send button when texting
Predictive text is the backseat driver of the tech world. It messes with your head ... and your words. It can get you into all sorts of mix-ups, especially at the Sevens, when you try to send texts, even early in the day. Stumpy fingers, small keyboards, blurred eyeballs and rugby distractions can spell trouble.
Somehow "sleep" becomes "slip" which is apt when you consider some slip down the slippery slope and get caught in the vortex of the Sevens maelstrom. Use moderation, pace yourself and you'll avoid the "hang pets" (hangover).
Clearly, autocorrect has its biases.
Ben Gollings, the world's highest sevens points scorer, comes up as "Bean Spilling" (He's not spilling the beans on how he mastered this).
Yet Waisale Serevi, the Fijian who kept Hong Kong Sevens crowds in awe for nearly two decades, comes up spelt correctly, as does Jonah Lomu and the Hong Kong Sevens highest points scorer, China's Johnny Zhang Zhiqiang.
Francois Pienaar comes up as "Francois Pie Hat", even though he's shaped nothing like "The Pieman" Martin Hollis, self-appointed Sevens mascot in the early 1990s. Predictive text also thinks of him as "Francois Pioneer, which he was as captain of the 1995 World Cup-winning 15s team, a feat no one could predict when he played one only sevens in Hong Kong during the early 1990s.