Is Auto-correct your Worst Enemy?
By Jo Ann
@akalinus (40440)
United States
March 6, 2018 2:52pm CST
I often write on my phone. It has auto-correct which turns the article or post into a nightmare at times. It often divides words into nonsense syllables. Sometimes, it is just malicious and makes mistakes that make you look bad in print. My worst example is that I was writing about the vagaries of the internet.
Vagaries mean a sudden or unexplainable change. That is exactly what happened so suddenly I was writing about the vaginas of the internet.
Has auto-correct ever ruined your writing? Do you laugh about it or get mad. I think this was funny now but did not then.
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16 responses
@spiderdust (14741)
• San Jose, California
7 Mar 18
Autocorrect has caused me to send some accidentally naughty messages on occasion.
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@spiderdust (14741)
• San Jose, California
7 Mar 18
@akalinus It was an awkward thing. 
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@akalinus (40440)
• United States
7 Mar 18
@spiderdust Awkward can be funny or bad. It depends on who you send it to.
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@1hopefulman (45123)
• Canada
8 Mar 18
Jo Ann
Yes, it did screw a few of my sentences and I was glad to have spotted them and corrected the auto-correct!
Yes, it did screw a few of my sentences and I was glad to have spotted them and corrected the auto-correct! 1 person likes this
@1hopefulman (45123)
• Canada
9 Mar 18
@akalinus Strange correction but it does do things like that at times. 
@akalinus (40440)
• United States
8 Mar 18
I'm glad you caught them. It is so much worse when you don't notice them until after they are sent. Last night, I was talking to someone about ibises. They are large white birds that you find along the Nile River. We have a bunch here in Florida. I posted a photo of them running down our street. The autocorrect kept turning ibises into noises.
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@akalinus (40440)
• United States
9 Mar 18
@1hopefulman But it is not really a correction, I said what I meant. They wanted to change it to the wrong thing.
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@peavey (16936)
• United States
6 Mar 18
Believe it or not, I got my first "smart" phone a couple of months ago (under duress; my old phone was dying). The auto correct/predictive text drives me crazy! It takes at least twice as long to text something than it used to because I have to keep going back and trying to convince it that I meant what I wrote. I can make enough goofy mistakes on my own.
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@neha211985 (780)
• India
7 Mar 18
Auto correct is an headache. It creates more problem and confuion.
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@sabtraversa (12937)
• Italy
6 Mar 18
I have a bittersweet feeling towards it.
There are times I'm lazy and don't want to type well, so it corrects my typos and I'm very very grateful for that. The other times, it messes up the words, and I get kind of frustrated.
I don't recall awkward situations, because I'm lucky the context helps others realize I didn't mean one word but another. I remember @EddieHands and his Kyoto instead of myLot.
Thanks for teaching me a new word, "vagaries", but I'm not sure I'll ever use it, sounds risky! 
Thanks for teaching me a new word, "vagaries", but I'm not sure I'll ever use it, sounds risky! 1 person likes this
@1creekgirl (40515)
• United States
6 Mar 18
That really is funny. It happened to me and I disabled that feature...can't remember how I did it, though.
It wrote a really nasty sentence in a text and thank goodness I saw it and didn't accidentally send it to my supervisor, of all people. We figured out that I had just used the mic to send my boss a text and didn't turn the mic off. It overheard us talking and typed that sentence. I've never uttered such language in my life!
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@1creekgirl (40515)
• United States
7 Mar 18
@akalinus Oh, how awful that would have been! Another reason I disabled auto correct and suggestions was because I was forgetting how to spell!
@cindiowens (5120)
• North Myrtle Beach, South Carolina
15 Nov 18
That is hilarious!1 person likes this
@cindiowens (5120)
• North Myrtle Beach, South Carolina
15 Nov 18
@akalinus I think so too sometimes.
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@dnatureofdtrain (5273)
• Janesville, Wisconsin
11 Mar 18
Auto correct can be funny.. but it is eeeevil... Every time my friend in chat says Casey to me it changes it to Casey Anthony lol.. she gets sooooo mad lol.. i laughed but it eeevil lol... i kept typing one day every time i typed a it would put in another chatters a name and people thought it was dissing him when i was talking about my naughty feral cat lol... nothing like typing Hello to someone and it keeps changing it to Hell boom banned from another chat lol... malfunctioning piece of scrap auto correct lol... but one person i know said.. to someone else come here i want to test your hunting skills, and it auto corrected it to come on i want to test your homosexuality skills lol... the one sending it screamed.. was mortified lol ....
"how i delete this! ... how do i delete this!"
"it put this in"
lol... i wonder how many heart attacks a year are caused by auto correct.. but gotta admit some of the screen shots of that go around are funny... but to the person posting or receiving it is not always that funny
@dnatureofdtrain (5273)
• Janesville, Wisconsin
13 Mar 18
@akalinus I do too it seems so nuts... what comes up on those even in some programs that help with misspelling are just as bad.. All of them I seen seem to.. it is not good...
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@akalinus (40440)
• United States
15 Mar 18
@dnatureofdtrain They are programmed by people. People aren't perfect so the programs have flaws.
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@FourWalls (62133)
• United States
7 Mar 18
I love the terrible messages I have sent and received thanks to autocorrect. I think it’s full of shirt!
