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To wish people would proof-read their posts to pick up auto-correct fails.

72 replies

UnaCorda · 02/02/2020 14:50

I'm not talking about SPAG errors, but the seemingly endless posts these days which are either full of incomprehensible gobbledygook or are immediately followed by a subsequent post reading "DD, not Dad" or "precious, nor precise" or "car, not cat", "carton, not cartoon", "lounging, not longing", "prorogues, not Portuguese", etc., etc., etc.

Is it asking too much to expect people to quickly scan what they've typed before pressing "post" so that threads don't become annoyingly cluttered with people's auto-correct corrections?

OP posts:
Halloweenbabyy · 02/02/2020 15:11

Ah stop been such a James Blunt....

vodkaredbullgirl · 02/02/2020 15:11

pollocks

vodkaredbullgirl · 02/02/2020 15:12

ops bollocks

UnaCorda · 02/02/2020 15:12

My nonce pie cheered up many a poster!!

To be fair, they are sometimes quite funny. Wasn't there a recent "vag pie" as well, or something like that?

OP posts:
TulipCat · 02/02/2020 15:13

I enjoyed the "car of chocolate"

Spudlet · 02/02/2020 15:14

Did you realise you have an autocorrect fail in your op?

RustyBear · 02/02/2020 15:14

You do know you've got an error in your OP, UnaCorda? Maybe you should take your own advice.

UnaCorda · 02/02/2020 15:15

Ah stop been such a James Blunt....

Tempting though it is, I did promise I wasn't talking about SPAG...

OP posts:
deareloise · 02/02/2020 15:15

I still laugh at the butch service from a few years ago Grin

Thedeadwood · 02/02/2020 15:16

Why doesn't MN just implement an edit function like every other forum on the internet?

This

UnaCorda · 02/02/2020 15:17

Did you realise you have an autocorrect fail in your op?

You do know you've got an error in your OP, UnaCorda? Maybe you should take your own advice.

Where?

OP posts:
deareloise · 02/02/2020 15:17

Also OP you did have a small fail yourself Grin

Spudlet · 02/02/2020 15:18

Uh-oh.... better proof-read it Grin

GreenTulips · 02/02/2020 15:18

Lady on her is attending a party and ‘will spend the night cock watching’

She meant clock ....

Another poster, boyfriend was asleep on the sofa and she asked ‘should I wank him up?’ to much micky taking ...

They can be amusing.

GogoGobo · 02/02/2020 15:19

YANBU.

deareloise · 02/02/2020 15:19

Lady on her Smile

UnaCorda · 02/02/2020 15:21

Also OP you did have a small fail yourself

Where??! Confused

OP posts:
deareloise · 02/02/2020 15:23

Precious, nor precise - should have been not.

UnaCorda · 02/02/2020 15:25

Precious, nor precise - should have been not.

Ah, thank you. I suppose that was inevitable... Blush

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DesLynamsMoustache · 02/02/2020 15:25

Snapped and farted? YABU

UnaCorda · 02/02/2020 15:26

Bloody Muphry. Hmm

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Yesterdayforgotten · 02/02/2020 15:27

YABU and overly pedantic... (maybe you need to do some techniques to relax if something so insignificant bothers you to the extent you have actually created a whole thread about it.) Try to relac

*relax Grin

UnaCorda · 02/02/2020 15:27

Snapped and farted? YABU

Apparently that wasn't an error. (And personally I didn't understand why people found that so hilarious, but that's another matter.)

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Spudlet · 02/02/2020 15:28

Lol. I don’t know why we don’t have an edit function for just these sorts of things though. Why don’t we have an edit function? Has it ever been explained?

TheMemoryLingers · 02/02/2020 15:29

It's one of the Laws of the Internet - any post that complains about spelling, grammar or typos shall itself contain at least one of the aforementioned Errols. Wink