Was writing an email to a buddy who likes sports, and mentioned that I know someone who lives in DC. The balance of the email was about the Football Team, but then I wrote...

[Friend X is in DC], so it was hard to resist getting season tickets again. Might succumb to the temptation next year. We've gone to a few Nats games, but wow, another embarrassingly bad season of DC

And then the textbox on gmail.com suggested "baseball".

The Nationals are a baseball team. Nats is the nickname.

Now you could convince me that it actually screwed up royally and thought the balance of the email (which I'll spare you) was actually baseball related, not NFL, but there's a non-trivial chance it got that one right.

It's going to get to the point we won't be able to tell when someone's going senile based on their emails.

Overall super-minor, but the ramifications are actually pretty large. It's reading my email realtime for non-grammatical context, which means it processes even the parts I take out. Is that kept in memory? How long is it stored? Did I sign up for this?

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