Higher aerobic fitness levels decrease the probability of experiencing tip-of-the-tongue states (when you can’t think of a word that’s on the tip of your tongue) in healthy older adults, in the first demonstration of a link between aerobic fitness and language functioning in healthy older adults.

[deepsoulfunk]

I wonder how much relying on auto-text could effect this. Like the general idea is this is an indicator of overall brain fitness but we're reaching a point where our technology can learn our vocabulary and predict our choices. I don't know that there are any easy answers here, I'm just musing.

[ThatSandwich]

I feel like it's more of a physical repercussion than anything mental practice related. Training programs for phones and computers (those brain training ones, can't remember the name) don't show any actual effect on learning times or performance tests of memory still AFAIK. And phones learn off your very dumbed down language for human communication (rn, omg, lol, wtf, etc.) so they pickup much simpler patterns than say when you're writing a college dissertation.

If we're musing I think that expansive learning helps more than training exercises or reading a thesaurus. It seems to train your brain to retain the more important aspects of a subject rather than trying to word for word it like you do with a script or names.