Autocorrect

[+ WmClarke]

I am tickled that my autocorrect knows the word shurgging.

 

Isn't technogy wonderful?

[+ purplekow]

I am surprised it did not change it to shrugging,

[Tonyko]

I am tickled that my autocorrect knows the word shurgging.

 

Isn't technogy wonderful?

 

Not when autocorrect changes my typos and I text my friend that's he's a BIG JEW. Or when texting my cuz on his new fiance' she goes from having a high wow factor to high COW factor. Telling my friends husband I wanted to seed him, asking a younger guy out to lunch and how about 2:00 became how about 200$? Etc Etc it's a blessing and a curse.

[+ WmClarke]

I am surprised it did not change it to shrugging,

 

I was surprised at that, too. The second time today I wrote that word, it did suggest both options.

[+ WmClarke]

Not when autocorrect changes my typos and I text my friend that's he's a BIG JEW. Or when texting my cuz on his new fiance' she goes from having a high wow factor to high COW factor. Telling my friends husband I wanted to seed him, asking a younger guy out to lunch and how about 2:00 became how about 200$? Etc Etc it's a blessing and a curse.

 

Yikes! I'm lucky I haven't seen much of the bad side of Autocorrect yet.

[+ quoththeraven]

We hates it, my precious, especially when I type a word or name correctly and don't notice it's not highlighted by autocorrect, which means it gets changed to something else without my noticing. That alone has fucked up a lot of tweets.

 

Speaking of which, it would have autocorrected "fucked" to "sucked" if I hadn't caught it.

[+ WmClarke]

We hates it, my precious, especially when I type a word or name correctly and don't notice it's not highlighted by autocorrect, which means it gets changed to something else without my noticing. That alone has fucked up a lot of tweets.

 

Speaking of which, it would have autocorrected "fucked" to "sucked" if I hadn't caught it.

 

Well, that ducks.

[+ quoththeraven]

Well, that ducks.

 

Touche! (Which got autocorrected to "touched" at first.)

[+ Funguy]

I am surprised it did not change it to shrugging,

 

Mine did that just recently and I only saw it as I hit "send."

[+ deej]

Autocorrect woes have been with us since autocorrect first started.

 

In the early days, when Intel's hottest new chip offering was the Pentium, there were a LOT of Word documents floating around discussing the Intel Penis because Word kept correcting it.

[tom1980]

My phone always changes sucked to suckered. Very annoying. The worst though is when I try to add 's to a name and it auto adds the whole name again. So I constantly get stuff like ThomasThomas's phone . . .

[+ purplekow]

I was corresponding with a very sexy escort today and I mentioned that I wanted to see him wearing a sexy pair of aqua speedos. Turns out I wanted to see him eating a sexy pair of acoustic speakers.

[TruHart1]

I was corresponding with a very sexy escort today and I mentioned that I wanted to see him wearing a sexy pair of aqua speedos. Turns out I wanted to see him eating a sexy pair of acoustic speakers.

 

I actually laughed out loud at this, PK!!!

 

TruHart1

[+ VeryHappyCustomer]

We employ a consulting company staffed largely by Indian nationals. Fortunately, the consultants who visit my office tend to be more sophisticated (and less thin-skinned) than the Phoenix-based employees who uncritically accepted autocorrect's decision to change two men's names in emails. Until IT pushed out a dictionary update, a (dark skinned) Indian man's name was autocorrected to "suntan", and his obese assistant's name to "hungry". When I apologized to "suntan" (the engagement manager), he laughed and said they'd noticed the update pushed out by IT, and thanked me for my thoughtfulness. Arizona's local politics tends toward the xenophobic. It would have been easy for our guests to construe such errors as exactly the kind of deliberate insult that would force us to close our Arizona office.

[Guest Starbuck]

This AUTOCORRECTION just in to our newsroom ... contrary to published reports that bigvalboy and jjkirkwood found PEACE, we now learn that the two men have only found PEAS (and may not yet be ready to sit down and eat them together).

[+ quoththeraven]

Autocorrect woes have been with us since autocorrect first started.

 

In the early days, when Intel's hottest new chip offering was the Pentium, there were a LOT of Word documents floating around discussing the Intel Penis because Word kept correcting it.

 

What I'd like to know is whose bright idea was it to autocorrect something I've typed to the end (i.e., hit a space after) and not changed? What it does is force me to keep an eye on the lefthand corner to see if it's going to accept or reject what I typed. I'm (generally) a good typist. It creates more work for me that way.

 

I realize that autocorrect is intended to correct mistakes, but I hate the overbearing nanny approach of automatically changing something I've typed in full. At least spellcheck doesn't do that.

[+ deej]

What I'd like to know is whose bright idea was it to autocorrect something I've typed to the end (i.e., hit a space after) and not changed? What it does is force me to keep an eye on the lefthand corner to see if it's going to accept or reject what I typed. I'm (generally) a good typist. It creates more work for me that way.

 

I realize that autocorrect is intended to correct mistakes, but I hate the overbearing nanny approach of automatically changing something I've typed in full. At least spellcheck doesn't do that.

 

You can turn it off, you know.

 

In Word, go to Tools->Options.

On an iPhone, it's Settings->Keyboard

 

You should be able to turn it off in other programs/platforms unless they're inferior.

[+ quoththeraven]

I'm using a Kindle Fire tablet. I'll check settings.

 

It's useful for autocomplete. It's when I type a complete word that I'd like it to butt out. It sounds like that may not be possible, though.

[+ deej]

Might be different settings. On iOS, "autocorrect" and "predictive" are different settings. Either can be turned off.

[whipped guy]

Mine did that just recently and I only saw it as I hit "send."

While others will hopefully appreciate this, funguy should get a special laugh out of this one...

 

It gets even more bizarre when on my iPad or iPhone I inadvertently hit the alternate foreign language keyboard that I have installed. Things come out looking like this:

 

Ti getta morte bizzarre whee on my iPad ora iPhone i inavvertibile hit the alternate gore ignorante keyboard that i ave installato.

 

Incidentally funguy gets changed to funghi or fungi depending on how the keyboard is set. A probable reason for his mushroom inspired avatar!

[+ Funguy]

Bravo, WG. RAAV!