Unfortunate autocorrects

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Re: Unfortunate autocorrects

Post by Fran »

Jyak wrote:My auto-corrects always seem to be mainly sexual as I could probably put together an erotic novel with my expansive collection.
Here are a few:
Immature -> I'm mating
Victoria (name) -> Victoria's Secret
Gulp -> G-spot
Meet me -> Meme me
Slitting -> Slutting
Enjoy the idea of a short story with these words replaced.
Let me know your worst auto-correct fails. Thanks! XD
I'm sure Sigmund Freud could make something of that :eusa-think:
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That happens all the time. It's awkward when it corrects name and you don't realise it before you send the message.
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I am writing a book with a character named Chris... but it keeps coming up as "Christ" ... I'm not sure if it's me or the computer, but either way, I am thinking of changing his name before I offend some people.
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My personal favorite Auto correct moment was a text conversation between my husband and I. I was feeling very under the weather and was trying to say "I feel like poop" (yes I said poop, not another form of the word ;-P) and it auto corrected to "I lick poop". My husband and I got quite a laugh out of that one.
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RuthAnn0211 wrote:My personal favorite Auto correct moment was a text conversation between my husband and I. I was feeling very under the weather and was trying to say "I feel like poop" (yes I said poop, not another form of the word ;-P) and it auto corrected to "I lick poop". My husband and I got quite a laugh out of that one.
LOL. This one is hilarious. I'm curious - if this was your favorite, how many autocorrect moments have you had?
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Now here's a thought. You know what would be interesting? To force yourself to redirect the story by keeping the "unfortunate autocorrect" in and building the story around it.

("Are you jealous?" But instead it came out as, "Are you Jesus?" )

"Are you Jesus?", said Sean.

My first impression was that Sean was attempting to introduce a bit of levity into our luncheon talk, but the wild look in his eyes convinced me that he was having a psychological meltdown right there in the restaurant. I needed to bring him back to reality immediately and all I could think to do was to throw the contents of my water glass directly into his face before he began to act out in public but my plan proved to be futile.

"You are NOT Jesus! You are John The Baptist! I am now certain of it!"
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One of the MOST annoying auto-correct for me is that whenever I'm trying to text my friend, her name always appears as Miller. Another appears as X-mas. I have had to explain countless times to my friend why I called her Christmas.
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Haha......I never had experiences like those.(Or maybe I had... I just can't remember)
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I have disabled this function for a long time. It is pretty hard to do all the corrections manually. Yet I don not have to re-correct the funny auto-corrects which I used to get when the function was enabled
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I see auto-correct as a demented, soulless, twisted demon who is determined to embarrass and humiliate me to my friends and family.
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Ah... auto-correct's at it again. I rarely use my phone or tabloid to write, but I use Grammarly for writing on the computer, and it often crosses out my punctuations and red-lined my "colours" and "favourites".
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Post by Zoey141 »

These auto corrects are frustrating for the writer and hilarious for the reader. I have the habit of typing really fast in order to maintain the flow of my thoughts. Sometimes there are spelling errors and auto corrects that I detect days later when I do a thorough grammar check. Sadly, I can't remember any of the funny auto corrects that i encountered over the years.
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