You can spell "banana" by drawing a banana.
You can spell "cloud" by drawing a cloud.
You can spell "giant steaming pile of shit" by drawing a giant steaming pile of shit.
@LadyDragonfly back when I used swipe input, my favourite word to spell was "proprietor".
@LadyDragonfly you can spell "left" by drawing an arrow to the left
@l3viathan you totally can!

@LadyDragonfly @l3viathan
The path even has 2 left turns and no right turns

BTW can you guess what is the longest word you can type with only left turns or only right turns?

@standupmaths explains at 23:27 in his typewriter video
https://youtu.be/Mf2H9WZSIyw?t=23m27s

Why the longest English word is PAPAL and SPA is the pointiest.

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@LadyDragonfly I just wish there was a privacy-forcussed version that works without #GAPPS for it...
FlorisBoard

An open-source keyboard for Android which respects your privacy. Currently in early-beta.

FlorisBoard
@LadyDragonfly Oh no, I'm going to be swiping shapes into my keyboard all morning now...
@LadyDragonfly you can spell skepticism like playing ping pong ball with your keyboard.
@LadyDragonfly Filing this away for future use, thankyouverymuch
@LadyDragonfly never really get it how this swipe thing worked. I'm a typing person ;)
@LadyDragonfly And on a T9 keyboard you cry in pain because B and A are on the same key.
@LadyDragonfly I get bassaleg .... then with practice banana.
@LadyDragonfly this is a very important result
@LadyDragonfly A boring fun and useful knowledge increase
@LadyDragonfly swipe makes so much more sense now.

@LadyDragonfly

But how do you stop spelling bananananana?

@LadyDragonfly this is my favorite thing right now
@LadyDragonfly A somewhat hidden but most useful function of swipe keyboards.
@LadyDragonfly The computer science we need.
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French-speaking people go like "Merde!"