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Get off my lawn!
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Dang autocorrect!
There are several web sites that have a lot of funny autocorrect fails.
 Like this one above. Two weeks ago I spent the day at the Oklahoma race track, Hallett Motor Racing Circuit. It is a fun, very technical track. As I was worn out and had an hour and 15 minutes of track time in the dry and 30 minutes in damp conditions I was done.  I was waiting for a session to end, so they would open the gate and let me leave. I thought the last cars had passed and the gate opening was imminent so I quickly replied to my wife's text. Then I got a bad case of the giggles when I saw her reply and looked at what I sent. If anyone was looking at me they likely thought I had gone over the edge. That is me next to the white 911 in the group photo. We had just 4 cars in my run group, so it was like a private track day. I got the giggles several times on the drive home thinking about that reply. Then last night my brother sent me a text.....  He recently came across a great deal on a patio heater. I know they are in big demand from restaurants that want to have outside eating due to the pandemic. He found a good deal on a used one. Of course my reply to him was WHAT? His reply was 4,000 BTU! So, have any of you had a funny typo or autocorrect blunder?
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03-20-2021, 06:57 AM
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The Unsettler
Join Date: Dec 2002
Location: Lantanna TX
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I have stopped calling it autocorrect
I only refer to it as autowrong which is IMHO more correct
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03-20-2021, 08:10 AM
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Registered
Join Date: Jan 2012
Location: NW Ohio
Posts: 9,733
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How about manually proof reading it before hitting "send" ?
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03-20-2021, 11:11 AM
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Registered
Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: Long Beach CA, the sewer by the sea.
Posts: 37,769
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Yeah, I hardly ever do speech text unless it's REAL simple.
My iPhone spell checker is not as complete as Google and the suggestions are in left field behind the fence. |
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03-20-2021, 11:22 AM
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Non Compos Mentis
Join Date: May 2001
Location: Off the grid- Almost
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I turned off autocorrect long ago.
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03-20-2021, 12:54 PM
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Just thinking out loud
Join Date: Nov 2001
Location: Close by
Posts: 6,885
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Whose diving the white howdy?
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03-20-2021, 12:56 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2002
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03-20-2021, 01:34 PM
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Yep. First iPhone years ago. Pick up something for me, tapcons I typed.
Pick up some tampons it said. Many years to live that one down. |
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03-20-2021, 03:53 PM
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Bland
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This is the signature line in all emails coming from my iPhone...
Please excuse any spelling or grammatical errors. This was sent from an iPhone...
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03-20-2021, 06:36 PM
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a.k.a. G-man
Join Date: Sep 2003
Posts: 13,614
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Spell check in Braille?
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03-21-2021, 01:07 AM
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Hell Belcho
Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: Oz
Posts: 9,249
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My phone occasionally autocorrects in Spanish and Dutch.
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03-21-2021, 02:06 AM
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Did you get the memo?
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Wichita, KS
Posts: 32,530
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Nothing correct about it. Anyone else miss the Blackberry that had a physical keyboard? I used to bang out emails on that thing like nobody’s business, didn’t even have to look at the keys.
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03-21-2021, 02:26 AM
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Bland
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03-21-2021, 03:58 AM
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Carrera
Crop Duster
Kachow
1976 Porsche 930
