T9 is a convenient way to enter text into a mobile phone using just nine number keys. The phone automagically guesses what you’re trying to say and comes up with words that fit the combination of digits you type. My phone, for example will guess ‘of’ when I type ’63’, and I have to scroll through the possible words that could be represented by ’63’ to get to ‘me’ if that’s what I want to say. When under the effluence of aclihol it is often easy to choose the wrong word. You can inadvertantly invite people to come out for swift ‘riots’ rather than swift ‘pints’ or ‘shots’.
I plan to use this defence in court. I really did mean pints. Honest M’Lud. Kind of like a “Let ‘im ‘ave it” for the post-nineties phone user.