to think that autocorrect has gone too far now

[LittleLionMansMummy]

At first I thought it was a great invention, but now it takes longer to type a message than when I had my first Nokia brick! I keep having to tell my phone that actually, yes, I did mean what first wrote and no, I don't mean what my phone thinks I mean and should be saying! It's bloody ridiculous! And then we have the hilarious MN thread titles quoting The Mayonnaise instead of The Marseillaise, repeated posts with random words mid-sentence that bear no relation to the topic, the insertion of words I never even knew existed and completely misplaced punctuation because our phones think they're so much damned smarter than us. AIBU to say that Samsung, Apple etc have gone way too far now? It's frustrating and unnecessary and has gone from being a help to a hindrance. Hmmph. Oh and some examples of funny mn autocorrects would certainly brighten my day.

I've never, ever, ever meant to write "ducking".

Does always becomes Dies.

Was that an autocorrect melcombe

Did the OP come back to the thread? I remember pages and pages without an explanation.

Texted my DH once that I was having a hot chic when I was in fact having a hot choc (and it just tried to autocorrect it again!)
He was perplexed and, I suspect, a little turned on

I have a love/hate relationship with autocorrect. As a dyslexic, autocorrect does help quite a bit - however it does hate me.
Ones ive not lived down yet;
To a friend: Omg I just found a banana in my vag. Didn't even know it was there & its gone gross & mushy!!
Was very confuses at her laughing .....the banana was in my bag honest!!
Also telling my mum, "there is a huge spider on the vagina. It lives there now so we cant go in"

• it was on the veranda.

To s.dad: We are having cunt wombles for tea if you want some chicken we were having chicken My phone is a pervert

Yanbu. Who actually wants it? No one! Why can't the inventors just hold up their hands and admit it doesn't work and then we can forget all about it.

I was messaging a friend about a swimming class we take our DCs to, called puddle ducks. My autocorrect changed it to Puddle Dicks, and I sent it without realising!

The ones that annoy me the most is where you want to say something like, 'they were ill all weekend' and after the third word it autocorrects to 'they we're I'll all weekend'.

I catch most of them but they're still annoying as fuck.

The it's / its one annoys me. I know which one I mean, thank you very much.

My iphone will not let me write fucking. It keeps changing it to ducking. Every time I go back to change it, it changes back. My iPad seemingly isn't bothered about my bad language.

MooseAndSquirrel I am crying

I've been on the sweary thread long enough that fucking comes up in whole as a suggestion and I have think to type ducking

MooseAndSquirrel - is your username in homage to a certain TV show featuring Winchesters by any chance?

I texted the dad of one of ds's friends the other day saying he couldn't go to their house after school cos he had the Lithuania (instead of the lurgy!). I have now adopted Lithuania as a 'condition'!

moose I have just almost choked at cunt wombles.

My phone wants to autocorrect wombles to Wimbledon. Interesting.

Sounds a bit common to me littlefish

Not as rude as some but my phone changed 'way' to Waybuloo! Quite how my phone knows anything about a cebeebies program is beyond me.

I have a love/hate relationship with autocorrect.

YANBU.

I think you can switch it off but fucked if I know how.

I lose more hours every working day to correcting autocorrect than anything else.

And sometimes they get through anyway.

Cine isn't even a word.

On a point of pedantry, I think you'll find it is.

One annoying thing about some autocorrection is that it "learns" stuff - so if it suggests a word, and you change it to, say, Waybuloo (see above), it remembers that and keeps offering it.

Auto correct is hilarious. A local supermarket here did a promo text last year about their bastard turkeys

(should have been basted turkeys, btw!)

I have tears over cunt wombles. Though my iPad tried to correct it to cunt wobbles. Tsk.

Teach me to forget to check. I sent the whole of Y1 parents, details about a school trip, and it ended with "and don't forget they all need to bring their willies" - what's wrong with wellies, it's a perfectly acceptable English word.

I am yet to live this down, 3 months later.