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bellbird

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I'm sure I'm not the only one that looks at & writes comments about scrapbooking on their phone. There really needs to be a scrapbooking dictionary or plug-in or something you can import so you don't need to teach auto-correct a heap of words. I've commented on a whole lot of tree pages over the last week on my phone and I openly apologise to anyone that has received a weird or non-sense comment from me on their page. I don't know that I catch all the auto-correct errors before i hit 'post reply'.

I did catch a few this week that would have made tree page comments interesting. My phone seemed to think when I commented on someone's 'trunk' that I was talking about their 'truck'. I'm sure that would have baffled some people, although commenting about 'grass' (when I meant and originally typed 'gesso') might not have been such an obvious auto-correct typo!
I also added 'vellum' to my dictionary this week, I can't remember what it auto-changed to but it was weird, and fortunately when I was leaving a comment on a Disney page, I saw that it changed 'Ooooh!' to 'Pooing!' because that would have probably got me banned as a Polly!

So what have you had to teach your phone not to auto-correct? Or have you had to make an apology because of an auto-correct typo? (I hope not, but I'd love to hear about it!)
 
What annoys me more than the phone replacing the word wrongly is when it strangely capitalizes words for no reason I understand.
 
michelepixels said:
What annoys me more than the phone replacing the word wrongly is when it strangely capitalizes words for no reason I understand.
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I know, it's bizarre when it randomly sticks capitals in the middle of a sentence, but what i shouldn't do but also do every single time is backspace the rest of the sentence, re-type the end half of the same sentence again and it just does the same capital thing again! you'd think i'd learn...

Dalis said:
PUCK to DUCK It's EVERY... SINGLE... TIME!!!!!!! Bianca plays hockey so we text left and right during the game to parents that are not present to keep them updated.
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um well that one could have been far worse but lol!
 
It does so many strange things that I can't keep up with them all. I'll try to remember to watch next time and see what it does.
 
Ha ha and on my laptop my s doesn’t always work so I comment on someone’s scrap page and we’ll you can guess what it sounds like when the s drops!! Lol I have to re read after it posts to fix as that has happened too many times!! Lol
 
:compcoffee Pooing. Ha! Yes, I'm 12.

I rarely use my phone to do much of anything other than text as I really prefer to use my computer and the large monitors. But I will say that when texting, it always changes love to live. :furious
 
Hey at least we are all in the same boat with autocorrect! Sometimes I catch them and sometimes I don't. I like to think whoever is reading knows it's autocorrect and not just horrible spelling/grammar, lol :heartlub
 
So there is a curse word I use all the time to describe the current situation at work. Needless to say I use it so often that autocorrect has stopped correcting it to what I was not trying to say and finally leaves it as is. :lmao
 
it’s really bad when I use my ipad - fat fingers hitting the wrong key or I hit the words above the keyboard by mistake. Yesterday’s mistake was there instead of they’re when talking to a friend - she didn’t understand the mistake at first
 
I typed "book" into Apple's message program and, even though I don't think I've ever typed the word, it changed the K to a B. And I didn't catch it because who would have thought that was a likely switch?

When a friend sent me a pic of our two kids playing, I typed "I love it!" ... But my phone changed "it!" to "you!" I quickly wrote back to her lol.

My DD's name is Genevieve. We call her Gen. It takes a long time for every new phone to stop trying to make "Gen" either "Ben" or "Jen." A few times it tried to make it "ten" (even though I'd hit the caps button for the G.) And DS's "Cal" becomes "Val."
 
I had to add an English keyboard to my cellphone, because if I try to write on my regular language ( Portuguese) it corrects every single word to Portuguese...it's really annoying!

but it doesn't matter what language, I get autocorrect typos all the time...
 
this happens to me all the time!
i finally got the autocorrect to learn the word ric rac ( i think it used to autocorrect to picnic or something like that) - there are so many other scrapbook related words that i would type over and over and it would autocorrect to something else and drive me crazy!
 
No autocorrect for me!!! I hated it changing EVERY.SINGLE.WORD!
But I love to laugh with all those autocorrect funny sentences others post
 
bellbird said:
I know, it's bizarre when it randomly sticks capitals in the middle of a sentence, but what i shouldn't do but also do every single time is backspace the rest of the sentence, re-type the end half of the same sentence again and it just does the same capital thing again! you'd think i'd learn...


um well that one could have been far worse but lol!
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It also auto-correct the word you are thinking to DUCK. LOL!!!!
 
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