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# Weird Word 2
- URL: https://www.workroom-productions.com/weird-word-2/
- Published: 2025-06-10T12:06:49.000Z
- Updated: 2025-06-11T18:20:51.000Z
- Description: What do you mean, you didn't get my messages?
- Author: James Lyndsay
- Tags: Articles

*An observation that might tell us something about what lies beneath the tools we use directly.*

Here's why you can't send a voice-to-text message to your iOS-using friend, from your iPhone, about M&Ms.

[Cracking The Dave & Buster’s Anomaly | Rambo CodesGui Rambo writes about his coding and reverse engineering adventures.![](https://static.ghost.org/v5.0.0/images/link-icon.svg)Rambo Codes![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/7e/30/7e30843b-2abb-494a-ab80-0e931d8ae9a9/content/images/thumbnail/opengraph.png)](https://rambo.codes/posts/2025-05-12-cracking-the-dave-and-busters-anomaly)

What's interesting to me here is that this is working properly, but 'properly' highlights an incompatibility between the needs of a security tool and an AI and a corporate agreement to use tradenames in a brand-aware way. 

And this from the firm that got us to accept glyphs.

One of the things I love about dysfunction is how much it tells us about how things are working.

Did it ~~work~~ fail for me? Not quite: in the UK, saying "Dave and Busters" transcribes as "Dave and Busters", not "Dave & Buster's". However, "M&Ms" failed properly. 

I suspect there's a bit of UK centric brand-translating going on – and when I talked with Mrs Workroomprds (she's not actually Mrs Workroomprds – she kept her maiden name), she smartly suggested "M&S". 

And, indeed, if you 1) open messages 2) choose the option to send voice messages 3) say "let me tell you about M&S" and 4) hit send, your own device will neatly transcribe your voice and send it along with the audio – but the other end will not receive message or audio. 

If you're doing it for yourself, you don't want to be sending a message, or transcribing audio, but sending an audio message – and those are automatically transcribed.

From:

[Cracking The Dave & Buster’s AnomalyGuilherme Rambo reports on a weird iOS messages bug: The bug is that, if you try to send an audio message using the Messages app to someone who’s also using …![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/7e/30/7e30843b-2abb-494a-ab80-0e931d8ae9a9/content/images/icon/favicon-5.ico)Simon Willison’s WeblogSimon Willison](https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/5/cracking-the-dave-busters-anomaly/)

which led to

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which referenced

[The Dave and Busters AnomalyA small group of Americans becomes convinced they’ve discovered something strange about their iPhones: a forbidden phrase the phone will refuse to transmit. A crack…![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/7e/30/7e30843b-2abb-494a-ab80-0e931d8ae9a9/content/images/icon/d622c860429d0e3dda437ba1e219c6d7.png)Search Engine![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/7e/30/7e30843b-2abb-494a-ab80-0e931d8ae9a9/content/images/thumbnail/MmWYC2UplkmMjBdbfITkuTnXTLNVS88CgNwhLLBeUFo-)](https://www.searchengine.show/the-dave-and-busters-anomaly/)