General   (General discussion, talk about anything.)

PeterP and broady,
This is true. You have the three-box option and you have many options to control the text. As broady thought, you can disable predictive text.
But, if you disable all the options which help with speed and possibly with ease, then this obviously can slow down the messaging.
Also, you have the option to choose the language. I tend to have mine on English. But, I sometimes communicate using a different language - this creates issues as the phone changes the word to an English word that it believes is the correct word.
In answer to what PeterP said, if you type quickly and don't tap on the option box, the auto insert sometimes occurs.
A typical issue with this is when you wish to use an apostrophe with an 's', the auto insert may consider to insert a plural. If the person is typing quickly, they do not recognise the auto inserts.
Obviously, it also depends on the type of mobile phone and the age of the mobile phone.
For me, most of the time, everything works well and smoothly.