A Funny Autocorrect?

By Lena Kovadlo

@lovebuglena (52135)

Staten Island, New York

October 7, 2021 3:45pm CST

I was texting my cousin yesterday and in my text message I wrote: I was at 718 Bistro recently... That's the name of a restaurant. After I sent the message and read it this is what was actually sent: I was at 718 Bistro Cemetery...

Cemetery is nowhere near the spelling of "recently." I wonder why my iPhone's autocorrect feature decided that "cemetery" was the word I wanted to type. Have you ever had your cell phone correct something you were typing with something else, something that was funny or weird?

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@xstitcher (39022)

• Petaluma, California

8 Oct 21

Yikes! Picnic at a cemetery ? LOL--my computer always tells me that the town I live in is spelled wrong; when it's not.

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@lovebuglena (52135)

• Staten Island, New York

8 Oct 21

Does it change the spelling to something else?

@lovebuglena (52135)

• Staten Island, New York

8 Oct 21

Picnic at a cemetery would definitely be a unique experience.

@xstitcher (39022)

• Petaluma, California

8 Oct 21

@lovebuglena No, but there's a red line under it every time that's supposed to tell me I've spelled it "wrong", and suggests a bunch of other words I should have written.

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@DaddyEvil (174377)

• United States

8 Oct 21

I got tired of the mistakes my phone kept putting into my texts so shut autocorrect off.

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@DaddyEvil (174377)

• United States

8 Oct 21

I'd rather have misspellings instead of the totally wrong word in texts I send.

@lovebuglena (52135)

• Staten Island, New York

8 Oct 21

@DaddyEvil yeah. I guess that’s better.

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@lovebuglena (52135)

• Staten Island, New York

8 Oct 21

I shut that feature off at one point but then I noticed too many misspellings as buttons too small for my fingers.

Very easy to hit the wrong key.

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@Shavkat (141906)

• Philippines

8 Oct 21

I sometimes experienced this situation at random when using my mobile phone's autocorrect.

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@Shavkat (141906)

• Philippines

9 Oct 21

@lovebuglena Yes, it did

@lovebuglena (52135)

• Staten Island, New York

9 Oct 21

@Shavkat can you share one?

@lovebuglena (52135)

• Staten Island, New York

8 Oct 21

Any funny autocorrects that happened?

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@RebeccasFarm (91297)

• United States

7 Oct 21

The phone is trying to bury people

@lovebuglena (52135)

• Staten Island, New York

7 Oct 21

Haha. Bistro would be a weird name for a cemetery.

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@RebeccasFarm (91297)

• United States

7 Oct 21

@lovebuglena Nice cakes, deli sandwiches, tea, coffee, etc

@lovebuglena (52135)

• Staten Island, New York

7 Oct 21

@RebeccasFarm What would be on the Bistro's menu?

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@RubyHawk (99367)

• Atlanta, Georgia

8 Oct 21

No, it’s never happened to me. When I’m typing discussions here, I see some.crazy words jump in that I have to correct.

@lovebuglena (52135)

• Staten Island, New York

8 Oct 21

I try to not mylot via my phone. Sometimes I do that though. And when I do I often find things to correct.

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@RubyHawk (99367)

• Atlanta, Georgia

8 Oct 21

@lovebuglena I mostly use my iPad.

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@LindaOHio (222314)

• United States

8 Oct 21

I don't have a smartphone; and I've never had anything like that happen. That would be annoying!

@lovebuglena (52135)

• Staten Island, New York

8 Oct 21

Sometimes the autocorrect funny but sometimes it’s not. It can be confusing and it can maybe hurt someone’s feelings.

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@LindaOHio (222314)

• United States

9 Oct 21

@lovebuglena Yes, you have to be careful.

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@Nawsheen (28761)

• Mauritius

8 Oct 21

Yes it happens several times and I always check my messages before sending

@lovebuglena (52135)

• Staten Island, New York

8 Oct 21

Good idea. I do not always do that.

@allknowing (153530)

• India

8 Oct 21

Moral of the story Never trust the autocorrect

@lovebuglena (52135)

• Staten Island, New York

8 Oct 21

True. I sometimes turn on the microphone feature and speak my text. It doesn’t always transcribe what I actually said.

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@kaylachan (84760)

• Daytona Beach, Florida

7 Oct 21

I have all of the time. I know I can't spell, but sometimes it'll auto-correct and I'm not aware of it.

@lovebuglena (52135)

• Staten Island, New York

7 Oct 21

Sometimes I want to turn the autocorrect feature off. But then I'd probably have a lot of misspelled words as the phone keys are small and it's easy to hit the wrong button.

@sjvg1976 (42727)

• Delhi, India

8 Oct 21

Yes, it happens especially when we type the name of a person/city, etc. It's better to check the message before sending it.

@lovebuglena (52135)

• Staten Island, New York

8 Oct 21

Definitely a good idea to check before sending. Sometimes you can end up offending someone accidentally.

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@averygirl72 (38848)

• Philippines

8 Oct 21

Funny. I always get annoyed when it happens to me

@lovebuglena (52135)

• Staten Island, New York

8 Oct 21

I sometimes get annoyed as well. I hate typos.

@AkoPinay (11496)

• Philippines

9 Oct 21

Yes. Sometimes it's funny. Sometimes it's not funny at all so I turned off that feature.

@lovebuglena (52135)

• Staten Island, New York

9 Oct 21

Yeah. It can change words to those that may end up hurting someone’s feelings.

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