# text (110-text.com)

Text is the words people read and write. It is messages, books, emails, and anything made of letters and sentences.

## What a model may hear
- plain string data (programming and databases): treat it as raw characters without formatting, not a number or date
- SMS message (telecommunications): assume a short 160-character message sent to a phone number
- machine-readable annotation (machine learning datasets): expect labeled training examples paired with categories or answers
- unstructured document (information retrieval): prepare to index, search, or extract from large bodies of words
- rendered glyph sequence (computer graphics and fonts): consider font files, layout engines, and display properties

## Where people and models part ways
- Says: "Send me the text"
  Means: Email or message me the information
  May be taken as: Format it as a raw code string or SMS protocol payload
  Say instead: "Email me the information in plain words"
- Says: "Analyze this text"
  Means: Tell me what this article says
  May be taken as: Run statistical NLP classification or sentiment scoring without summary
  Say instead: "Summarize what this article means in plain language"
- Says: "Make it text-only"
  Means: No images or videos, just words
  May be taken as: Strip all markup and structure including headings and paragraphs
  Say instead: "Use only words, but keep headings and paragraphs for readability"
- Says: "Extract the text"
  Means: Pull out the readable words from this file
  May be taken as: Dump raw OCR output or binary-encoded characters without cleaning
  Say instead: "Pull out the readable words and fix any obvious scanning errors"

## Tips
- Say 'plain words' or 'sentences' if you do not want technical string handling
- Say 'summarize' or 'explain' instead of 'analyze' unless you want statistics
- Mention 'headings' and 'paragraphs' if you want structure kept
- Say 'message' or 'email' instead of 'text' if you do not mean SMS
- Say 'readable words' if you want human-oriented output, not code

## Often confused with
- string: a programming data type, not natural language
- content: broader, includes images and video
- copy: specific to marketing or published writing
- script: executable code, not just readable words
- document: implies formatting and file structure
- corpus: a collected body for linguistic study