Unfortunate autocorrects
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Unfortunate autocorrects
Some examples:
"...college students..." was changed to the highly inappropriate "...colored students..."
"...break the silence..." became "bream the silken" (because that makes so much more sense, right?)
"... quite frank..." somehow turned into "...whip Frank..." which had a completely different meaning that what I was going for.
And then today, my character asked another character, "Are you jealous?"
But instead it came out as, "Are you Jesus?"
The answer was no, on both accounts, in case you were curious.
Please share some of your unfortunate autocorrects or mistakes you have come across in your own writing!
Please tell me I'm not alone in this!
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I always turn my predictive text off so as not to have those.
That does not however prevent typos.
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I didn't have any unfortunate ones today. Just a bunch of jibberish a few times when even the computer couldn't figure out what I was trying to write.
-- 11 Sep 2014, 22:00 --
Today's follow-up:
A character with a minor injury claimed that she would "feel better tomorrow" but it came out as "I'll feel Brett tomorrow."
I don't know who Brett is, but he'd better watch out tomorrow!
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The other day a friend of mine went out to buy some food for a business presentation we had to do next period. At the time that she texted me, I was talking to a group of people about food. Her text read "I got tomboys."
I was kind of confused. Were "tomboys" some sort of slang term for a new type/old type of food? I mean, I'm not exactly up-to-date with lots of slang either so <.< I asked the group of people I was with what tomboys were. Someone started to explain to me the legit definition of tomboy, when I cut them off and said "no, the food." Well this stumped everyone. There was a group of about eight of us and we were all trying to figure out what tomboys could possibly be. We got nothing.
Later we found out that she had meant to say "timbits." <.<
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Like Haruka is always Hurrah or something. Thanks a lot, AC, you loser.
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I had forgotten all about these! This is awesome!ALynnPowers wrote: "...college students..." was changed to the highly inappropriate "...colored students..."
"...break the silence..." became "bream the silken" (because that makes so much more sense, right?)
"... quite frank..." somehow turned into "...whip Frank..." which had a completely different meaning that what I was going for.
And then today, my character asked another character, "Are you jealous?"
But instead it came out as, "Are you Jesus?"
The answer was no, on both accounts, in case you were curious.
Are you Jesus?
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I remember years ago when I was working for a newspaper, they'd just transitioned from manual typewriters to computer terminals, and the autocorrect system was full of bugs, hyphenating words like "cat" and other happy idiocies.
When I set up my new laptop last September and installed MS-Office, first thing I did was to turn off ALL autocorrect features! After I finish something I'll let it do a spell check, mostly to catch typos, but all that post-completion checking is voluntary.
The best spellchecker is between your ears.
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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