Siri is an Imperialist

Megan: “Yes, you heard me right Siri, I think you are an imperialist.”

Siri: “If you say so.”

Megan: “Why yes, yes I do.”

For those of you who don’t know, Siri (he in the UK, she in the US) is Apple iPhone’s voice assistant service.

After much ado about getting a “real” phone (see my previous post on surviving with a phone from 1999 until I could get an iPhone here, and David’s rebuttal to my post here), I have my iPhone. And it’s great, except for one HUGE flaw. See the below conversation:

Based on my research, this is a widespread issue and there is no way around it except to begin speaking with a British accent. So upon this discovery during Boozy Lunch and Museum Sunday (will explain in a future post), imagine three Americans taking turns to see who could get Siri to understand them.  We all lost, horribly.

No I didn’t say, “How many miles between here and Martin jealous.” (I actually said, “how many miles between here and Los Angeles.”)

I guess in the mean time we’ll just go on practicing: "The rain in Spain stays mostly in the plain. The rain in Spain stays mostly in the plain. The rain in Spain stays mostly in the plain…”