Auto correct | pad patter 1.28.2017

[AnneofAlamo]

I love sitting in my living room, with radio going hubby on laptop, daughter skyping friends, littlest in bed, and me on kindle doing gallery comments. But.......

Auto correct. Argh.

I wrote of the littleness of a sweet young boy...and auto correct changed it to bitterness.

Eeek!!!!!

What about you, tell your auto correct stories...

 

[Tree City]

LOL! That's funny! Did you catch it before posting???

After my Android phone updated its dictionary this summer, it must have also changed the predictive word algorithm: Every time I tried to text "I love it!" my phone would change "it" to "you." So, when a friend texted me a pic of DS at her house playing with her DD, instead even though I wrote out "I love it!" my phone changed "it" so my text was "I love you!" That's a very different statement to send in response to a pic of our kids playing together. Thankfully I caught it and changed it back. Thankfully another update fixed this issue (or I've just written enough things to "fix" the algorithm on my own).

 

[QuiltyMom]

Mine's the story of a Hookah print. Yup. Do you know what one is? We sure didn't.

Last week I was texting with my sister about recipes. I was looking through my mom's recipe box for a specific recipe, and I came across a recipe for Mocha Prune Cake. Seriously? Well, I had dictated the message since I was scrapping MOC stuff and I didn't check it before I hit the send button. Here is what it sent:

John thinks you should make them hookah print the cake for mom since it's her recipe.​

It was supposed to say:

John thinks you should make the mocha prune cake for mom since it is her recipe.​

I don't know how funny it seems to y'all, but it was definitely one of those "you had to have been there" moments, because we were all rolling with laughter by that point.

 

[michelepixels]

I have mostly been annoyed by autocorrect, but there have also been some corrections that had me . Unfortunately, I don't remember them now. I think next time it happens I'll write it down. A few collected together would be a fun scrapbook page!

 

[bestcee]

I switched keyboards this month. Bad idea. My last one would predict user names here!
This one has crazy autocorrect fails. I think my favorite was I typed homeschool, and it changed it to hijack.
We love homeschool is totally different from we love hijack.

 

[Sokee]

@mimisgirl called me Smoker the other day..... It was a auto correct when she wrote Sokee, I did not mind!

 

[keepscrappin]

I had a friend who texted her dd and asked her if she was going to do math with grandpa when she got home. But the phone autocorrected math to meth. Can you imagine her daughter's surprise when it said "are you going to do METH with grandpa when you get home?" hehe

My husband's name is Rob, but my phone was auto correcting it to Rod. I don't know why, because I don't even know a Rod...maybe I just have fat fingers! Anyways, My friend was trying to find me and when I texted that I was at lunch with Rob, it changed it Rod. But I didn't know that it had changed. Now, you need to know that my husband travels a lot for work, so she texts me back and says, "Who's Rod?" So I teasingly, texted her back and said, "He's my boyfriend" And then I text, "lol ROB... dumb auto correct!" We've laughed forever about that one!

 

[tkradtke]

A screenshot of a recent text conversation with my daughter....

The word she was looking for was "subtle"... I have no clue what string of letters she was typing to get the autocorrects that she got though.

 

[carrie1977]

No funny auto-correct stories from me. But, I have a friend whose husband programmed her phone so that when she types certain phrases or words they change to whatever he entered in for them. There are a ton of them but I can only think of a few off-hand.

husband = amazing and wonderful husband
Clinton (her hubby's name) = sexy beast
for sure = fo shizzle
true = true dat
really = on the real
crazy = wiggity wiggity whack
hubby = hunka burning love

For the longest time she couldn't figure out how to change it. LOL!

 

[KittyY]

My husband sent me a text - said "you are so beautiful"

my reply - 'asses!'

umm that was supposed to be 'awwwwww!'

I don't think that was the response my husband was hoping for lol

 

[michelepixels]

No funny auto-correct stories from me. But, I have a friend whose husband programmed her phone so that when she types certain phrases or words they change to whatever he entered in for them. There are a ton of them but I can only think of a few off-hand.

husband = amazing and wonderful husband
Clinton (her hubby's name) = sexy beast
for sure = fo shizzle
true = true dat
really = on the real
crazy = wiggity wiggity whack
hubby = hunka burning love

For the longest time she couldn't figure out how to change it. LOL!

My daughter did that to me! But they were random words. Like "the" would be changed to "milk." I ignored it for a while but then I either asked Rhiannon to show me where to change those settings, or found it myself. It was over a year ago, so the memory is fuzzy.

 

[carrie1977]

My daughter did that to me! But they were random words. Like "the" would be changed to "milk." I ignored it for a while but then I either asked Rhiannon to show me where to change those settings, or found it myself. It was over a year ago, so the memory is fuzzy.

Hahaha! So funny!

 

[LeeAndra]

My husband is a walking autocorrect. The other day he described 'crow's feet' as 'cat's claws.' I almost fell off my chair from laughing.

 

[amien1]

I don't have any good autocorrect stories- but I am NOTORIOUS for texting the wrong person. For some reason I look at my text when it comes in then forget to respond to it. So then when I go to text someone (usually my hubby ) I ALWAYS end up sending it to the person that last texted me instead- like my mom, daughter's soccer coach, neighbor... it goes on! Thankfully- there have been only a few that were 'not meant for other people's eyes' but only my mom happened to get those. She thought it was hilarious. SMH. I really need help- like texting 101 school or something!

 

[StefanieS]

I have added some words to my dictionary by mistake. Journlaing being just one of them. I obviously need to be more careful when choosing add to dictionary or correct to Google's suggestion.

 

[jenn mccabe]

i told the story already how i typed how much i loved Jenn's "stupid" paper on one of her layouts in the gallery! totally meant to type striped paper. she was gracious and just laughed, thankfully she knew what i meant. there have been lots of others. i'm sure there are some i don't even know about!

one that drives me nuts is trying to type "cardstock" when commenting in the gallery. my Mac always wants to change it to yardstick or if i miss a letter: carsick.

 

[dawnmarch]

I don't have any good autocorrect stories- but I am NOTORIOUS for texting the wrong person. For some reason I look at my text when it comes in then forget to respond to it. So then when I go to text someone (usually my hubby ) I ALWAYS end up sending it to the person that last texted me instead- like my mom, daughter's soccer coach, neighbor... it goes on! Thankfully- there have been only a few that were 'not meant for other people's eyes' but only my mom happened to get those. She thought it was hilarious. SMH. I really need help- like texting 101 school or something!

I do this ALL THE TIME!