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to wish people would preview their posts if using predictive text?

22 replies

MardyBra · 12/02/2011 18:08

I just keep seeing surreal words popping up all over the place...

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MardyBra · 12/02/2011 18:09

Although I'll probably regret starting this thread, as I'll get jumped on for any typos I make now!

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StealthPolarBear · 12/02/2011 18:09

you are not being unbreezable

stoppinchingthedummy · 12/02/2011 18:10

yabu :) i laugh at some of the words that come up when my dp sends me texts without checking ...ha ...last week was "have u asked friors why the vipers are outside the shop" meant to say "have u asked fred why the police are outside the shop" ..made me chuckle anyway :)

allsquareknickersnofurcoat · 12/02/2011 18:10

My fave was yesterday...
poppies = police
Grin

InspirationalBreadbin · 12/02/2011 18:12

It's not just on here. A text from my DH yesterday read 'Jarvik pluton tipper cup and what was the other thing?'
Any guesses?

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MardyBra · 12/02/2011 18:13

No idea inspirational but your nn is quite surreal too!

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MadameOvary · 12/02/2011 18:14

This sort of thing didn't happen before we all became iwhores

Acanthus · 12/02/2011 18:16

It's not predictive text though, it's bloody autocorrect and it comes up with some real random shit. But yes, I do read it over.

onimolap · 12/02/2011 18:17

Allsquare: that was me! Glad you enjoyed the moment.

But my worst one was "if you lube Montezuma"

It seems to be worst when you make a typo (very easily done on a touch screen), and it then turns it into the next nearest word. I do look more carefully at what I've typed before pressing 'post', but I'm still very fallible.

strandedpolarbear · 12/02/2011 18:20

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InspirationalBreadbin · 12/02/2011 18:21

Why thank you MardyBra. Another classic from my OH was 'Prized sandwich is toast'.

Err, is it? Thanks for that!

SnapFrakkleAndPop · 12/02/2011 18:31

This happens to me quite a lot with autocorrect... You can train them but the most annoying ones are typos that don't correct - I often type for as fir, or of as if. Or I hit fkr and it corrects to the wrong thing.

LadyThumb · 12/02/2011 18:32

Oh dear! When I started the same topic 3 weeks ago I got a right flaming!! I am fed-up seeing posts with one word, or "sorry, grrr predictive text" because it disrupts the flow of the thread!

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MardyBra · 12/02/2011 18:33

Sorry LadyThumb - missed your thread.

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Tupperwarewolf · 12/02/2011 20:42

YANBU. I'm with LadyThumb, so fed up of every other post being a correction.

cumfy · 13/02/2011 00:02

You forgot to put tea in the cup and water was the other thing!

GreenEyesandHam · 13/02/2011 00:05

YABU I think they're hilarious :o

muggglewump · 13/02/2011 00:06

Ha, if it was correct, then they couldn't say 'look at me on my iphone/ipad'

Yep though, it is annoying.
I don't care what you are posting on, but please try to make it correct.

RunawayRasin · 13/02/2011 00:09

This website is fantastic and very funny

Earthymama · 13/02/2011 00:27

RR, I have had the giggles really badly on reading those autocorrects!!

DP watching Braveheart, the sad bits and I'm falling around laughing!

Tee2072 · 13/02/2011 07:41

I have an iPhone and I find them annoying. It takes 2 seconds to read over a post and correct what the stupid phone does.

Honestly, whomever wrote the software for iPhone's auto-correct must have been mentally unbalanced.

And if I do miss one, I rarely post to correct it. Unless it really changes the meaning of the post, I just shrug and move on with my life.

Morloth · 13/02/2011 08:21

YABU, I love them, cracks me up.

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