vossiewulf: Stupid autocucumber
auto cucumber
god donut
FUSCHIA!

Congrats, you win one internal

MaudlinMutantMollusk: vossiewulf: Stupid autocucumber
auto cucumber
god donut
FUSCHIA!

You bastard!

/I spit beer all OVER my new laptop
//still laughing

I typed fusc into google. I got fuschia in the autocomplete and fuchsia as the first result.

/aaaand it continues

LOL. What's great is that common misspellings are automatically picked up and corrected, but it totally falls apart for words that are uncommon. "Wed" always becomes "We'd" on my iPhone. "Cant" becomes "Can't". Its just smart enough to be useful, but occasionally it changes the whole intonation of the prose.

The The Impotence of Proofreading. (new window)

so if you spend a few seconds after it autocompletes and say 'huh, so that is how you spell mortgage' you have increased your vocabulary. or are people not even bothering to do that? my pet peeve is the word 'sell' in want ads. how the heck can any adult write 'used car for sell'.

Autocucumber tread!

Precision Boobery: Autocucumber tread!

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/thank you.
//water all over screen and keyboard.
//giggling like a fool

starlost:
so if you spend a few seconds after it autocompletes and say 'huh, so that is how you spell mortgage' you have increased your vocabulary. or are people not even bothering to do that?

I think a lot of people really are that lazy :( Considering the # of people who will actually compose an email on a computer using nearly incomprehensible texting-ese, despite having a shift key and full keyboard available, human tech laziness seems infinite. Even my dad sometimes seems to view the shift key as optional (which is, admittedly, preferable to CONSIDERING IT OBLIGATORY).

I try to compose each email and forum post using proper spelling and grammar, if only to make it stand out a bit. At this point, this is probably as futile as complaining about people not using floppy disks any more...

No Such Agency: I try to compose each email and forum post using proper spelling and grammar, if only to make it stand out a bit. At this point, this is probably as futile as complaining about people not using floppy disks any more...

I tend to hang out on Fark mostly, because of the fact that we all seem to have a common understanding to at least make the attempt at writing like we are humans. Spelling and grammar mistakes abound, but only the most hardcore of grammar nazis really care.

Meh. None of my friends or family bother with using spellcheckers; they just call me up and ask me instead.

/Only know 2 people with smartphones and they don't seem to be cursed with autocorrect diarrhea

There was an issue with Bing where if you typed in "en.wiki" it would go to a Wikipedia site about pearly penile polups... I have screen caps but i am on the phone. Needless to say, it traumatized my gf.

Autocomplete =/= autospelling

But they both are fun when it all goes wrong.

DamnYankees: Making spelling obsolete is a good thing. The point of language is communication, not spelling.

You can have my spelling if you give up your fractions first. The point of math is guesstimates, not precision.

You don't need to actively learn to spell if you read. Reading is the best way to learn to spell. Reading a lot is the best way to develop a posh-sounding vocabulary without the posh education.

Unfortunately, a lot of people these days don't read (books, or comics even).

Really subby? Scary? You spend a lot of time yelling at kids to get off your lawn, don't you?

Showing results for autocorrect
Search instead for autocomplete

Natsumi: Precision Boobery: Autocucumber tread!

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/thank you.
//water all over screen and keyboard.
//giggling like a fool

Same. Beer almost went everywhere.
Though... it seems that my phone tends to remember which words I use the most and preferences these for texting. So maybe those examples are karmic justice?

Dheiner: Smoking GNU: RESPOND TO MY BONER!

I don't think that was an autocorrect problem.

Thats what she.... oh Farking nvm.

xanadian: Smoking GNU: RESPOND TO MY BONER!

Thinking about it, it's almost like someone on Fark saying, "Respond to my Weeners!"

Whenever i see Smokin GNU now i will always yell RESPOND TO MY BONER!

Dheiner: Smoking GNU: RESPOND TO MY BONER!

I don't think that was an autocorrect problem.

+1 to you, sir

Given the author doesn't know the difference between a browser and a search engine I'd say we have bigger problems with technology overtaking us than autocorrect.

Precision Boobery: Autocucumber tread!

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Uh... sour crane and choir potatoe? So either that one (and sure many others) are fake or some dumbass really told their autocomplete that Dan Quayle had it right all alone.

My autocorrect one gave me the suggestion of Hindus after "chocolate chip." I've since decided that Chocolate Chip Hinuds was going to be my band name.

r1niceboy: vossiewulf: Stupid autocucumber
auto cucumber
god donut
FUSCHIA!

Congrats, you win one internal

..and another one for ewe.

I turned off autocomplete on my phone. It was annoying as fark.

I miss the Google search engine of 2005.

My problem isn't spelling, it is the damn keyboard. Too easy to mash more than one key at a time when zipping through at mind speed. Must. Slow. Down.

Autocomplete is already the end for me. I use it every time I have sex.

I start getting sexy, and kiss her and touch her. Then autocomplete kicks in and I go play video games for a bit.

I'm intrigued and appalled at this. Up until the 1700s or so (ball park figure) spelling wasn't codified into the universally agreed upon forms. Shakespeare, Wyatt, and Milton would all use variants in spelling for the same word, some of them would vary the spelling within the same document!

Some writers argue because different spellings can make a case for different inflections, stresses, and highlighting sound similarities and differences. Which I suppose makes sense. And it does point the way towards language is about communication primarily, precision next.

But Shakespeare playing with language is a far cry from Timmy on his iPhone saying, "heyyyy gurrl, I wanna feelz u."

Mawson of the Antarctic:

But Shakespeare playing with language is a far cry from Timmy on his iPhone saying, "heyyyy gurrl, I wanna feelz u."

I often use phrasing that I know to be grammatically flawed in order to convey a certain tone within a text message. For instance, I might say "where you at?" instead of "where are you?"

I do this because informal language conveys an informal, friendly tone. "Where are you?" sounds urgent at best and accusatory at worst.

So many of those autocomplete pictures are obviously fakes.

Either way, the more you see the correct spelling of words, your brain learns how it's spelled.

or

fi yuo cna raed tihs, yuo hvae a sgtrane mnid too. Cna yuo raed tihs? Olny 55 plepoe out of 100 can.
i cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was rdanieg. The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid, aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it dseno't mtaetr in waht oerdr the ltteres in a wrod are, the olny iproamtnt tihng is taht the frsit and lsat ltteer be in the rghi t pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it whotuit a pboerlm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Azanmig huh? yaeh and I awlyas tghuhot slpeling was ipmorantt!

Step One: Disable Auto-Correct

/always do this with each new phone
/everyone biatches about auto-correct, but refuses to disable it. I am not sure why.

DamnYankees: Making spelling obsolete is a good thing. The point of language is communication, not spelling.

Aye ugrea hwith ewe kumpleetlee. Ahbveeuslee, Aye am kumyoonikating purrficktlee buy yewzing mai own spelling radder then sum sort uhv standerdieyezed fashist boolshiat.

Are you going to type that report to the senior management team in Google? No. You can't depend on auto-correct and spell checkers. A lot of people just naturally suck at spelling. But, you must at least know how to use a dictionary, have a good basic vocabulary and know grammar. Without these basic skills, you may be of above average intelligence and still be perceived as a moron.

"Respond to my boner!!!"

That one could last on the internets

/hot
//doghousediaries (new window)

The dumber you get, the more money I make - I'm all for autocomplete.

Uncle Tractor: [thedoghousediaries.com image 640x520]

/hot
//doghousediaries (new window)

I read that last line using Doofenschmirtz's voice.

SCDA Inc: Either way, the more you see the correct spelling of words, your brain learns how it's spelled.

or

fi yuo cna raed tihs, yuo hvae a sgtrane mnid too. Cna yuo raed tihs? Olny 55 plepoe out of 100 can.
i cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was rdanieg. The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid, aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it dseno't mtaetr in waht oerdr the ltteres in a wrod are, the olny iproamtnt tihng is taht the frsit and lsat ltteer be in the rghi t pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it whotuit a pboerlm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Azanmig huh? yaeh and I awlyas tghuhot slpeling was ipmorantt!

It helps if you are dsyelicx. Dyslexic of the world untie!

vossiewulf: Stupid autocucumber
auto cucumber
god donut
FUSCHIA!

morning coffee's supposed to go in mouth, not all over monitor

You can literally do something figuratively, but you can't figuratively do something literally.

Piss piss moan, old people yelling at clouds...

starlost: so if you spend a few seconds after it autocompletes and say 'huh, so that is how you spell mortgage' you have increased your vocabulary. or are people not even bothering to do that? my pet peeve is the word 'sell' in want ads. how the heck can any adult write 'used car for sell'.

Clear tittle, new insectshn sticker.

Mawson of the Antarctic: I'm intrigued and appalled at this. Up until the 1700s or so (ball park figure) spelling wasn't codified into the universally agreed upon forms. Shakespeare, Wyatt, and Milton would all use variants in spelling for the same word, some of them would vary the spelling within the same document!

Some writers argue because different spellings can make a case for different inflections, stresses, and highlighting sound similarities and differences. Which I suppose makes sense. And it does point the way towards language is about communication primarily, precision next.

But Shakespeare playing with language is a far cry from Timmy on his iPhone saying, "heyyyy gurrl, I wanna feelz u."

Don't blame Timmy. A quick Google search says Shakespeare never had an iPhone.

did my ♥ luv til now? 4swear it, site! I neva saw tru beauty til this nite, gurrl.
Romeo and His Ho, Act 1, Scene 5

ur ♥s desires b w/ u gurrl!
That's How U Like It, Gurrl, Act 1, Scene 2

Optimus Primate: Step One: Disable Auto-Correct

/always do this with each new phone
/everyone biatches about auto-correct, but refuses to disable it. I am not sure why.

Because it actually works great if you're not a complete farktard.

Kar98: Optimus Primate: Step One: Disable Auto-Correct

/always do this with each new phone
/everyone biatches about auto-correct, but refuses to disable it. I am not sure why.

Because it actually works great if you're not a complete farktard.

But the farktards are obviously the ones biatching about it (OMG FML), and thus apparently unable to handle it. Thus, I wonder why they don't just disable it. Problem solved.

I liked it for some things, but I am a semi-Farktard when it comes to touchscreen keypads, so I disabled it and found that it was a better experience for me.

I swear a large portion of the autocorrect examples are simple fakes though.

Colour_out_of_Space: DamnYankees: Making spelling obsolete is a good thing. The point of language is communication, not spelling.

Aye ugrea hwith ewe kumpleetlee. Ahbveeuslee, Aye am kumyoonikating purrficktlee buy yewzing mai own spelling radder then sum sort uhv standerdieyezed fashist boolshiat.

there was a time when there wasn't a standardized spelling regime. some of the greatest literature in mankind's history was written before spelling was regularized

/ makes studying ancient languages pretty retarded, when every single text has a different spelling for the same word.
// that's why it is easier to read it out loud

Optimus Primate: Kar98: Optimus Primate: Step One: Disable Auto-Correct

/always do this with each new phone
/everyone biatches about auto-correct, but refuses to disable it. I am not sure why.

Because it actually works great if you're not a complete farktard.

But the farktards are obviously the ones biatching about it (OMG FML), and thus apparently unable to handle it. Thus, I wonder why they don't just disable it. Problem solved.

I liked it for some things, but I am a semi-Farktard when it comes to touchscreen keypads, so I disabled it and found that it was a better experience for me.

I swear a large portion of the autocorrect examples are simple fakes though.

Yeah, there's sites where you can generate them. Also, the autocorrect function on my iPad with iOS 5.1 is worlds ahead of the one I've got on my iPhone that's stuck at iOS 4.2.1

Her: What are you doing tonight?
Me: I have no pants.
Her: Sounds fun, I'll be right over.

If only she wasn't married.Tha,t and I had no idea she felt that way. Auto correct the confessor strikes again.

I turned off Autocorrect a long time ago. I can't imagine anyone leaving it on.

Now, spell-check on the PC, on the other hand, is handy.

Nix Nightbird: I turned off Autocorrect a long time ago. I can't imagine anyone leaving it on.

Now, spell-check on the PC, on the other hand, is handy.

The other hand is handy?

Tools are only as good as the person who is using them. This applies to every tool from a simple hammer up to a TI graphing calculator. I have several students in geometry that just yesterday had to figure out an angle by essentially averaging the measure of two arcs (a+b)/2. the two arcs were 20^o and 10^o so the answer should have been 15^o, in fact they should have been able to do it in their heads but no they all grabbed a calculator and half of them came up with 25^o. We had a nice discussion about order of operations and how a+b/2 =/= (a+b)/2 and using your head to check for the reasonableness of your answer.

vwarb: The The Impotence of Proofreading. (new window)

EXACTLY describes my every experience typing on my iPad since I got it last Xmas. Even after I turned off all auto-fill-complete-check utilities. (I was a professional language specialist, including proofing, for many years. I'm now officially crazy.)

Thanks for the laff.

BurnShrike: So many of those autocomplete pictures are obviously fakes.

That doesn't make them any less funny.

/people stared at me the first time I read those

DamnYankees: Making spelling obsolete is a good thing. The point of language is communication, not spelling.

Make spelling obsolete? Here's a word for you: "ghoti"; now, unless you're familiar with the works of George Bernard Shaw, you have no idea how to pronounce it, or what it means.

"Communication is not the art of making yourself understood. It's the art of making yourself impossible to be misunderstood." - Cicero

LovingTeacher: I have several students in geometry that just yesterday had to figure out an angle by essentially averaging the measure of two arcs (a+b)/2. the two arcs were 20o and 10o so the answer should have been 15o, in fact they should have been able to do it in their heads but no they all grabbed a calculator and half of them came up with 25o. We had a nice discussion about order of operations and how a+b/2 =/= (a+b)/2 and using your head to check for the reasonableness of your answer.

I had a grad school professor that would award negative points to test answers that were not only wrong, but didn't pass a common sense check. It started with a student who was supposed to calculate the mass of a microscopic object and came up with an answer of several metric tons.

puckrock2000: DamnYankees: Making spelling obsolete is a good thing. The point of language is communication, not spelling.

Make spelling obsolete? Here's a word for you: "ghoti"; now, unless you're familiar with the works of George Bernard Shaw, you have no idea how to pronounce it, or what it means.

"Communication is not the art of making yourself understood. It's the art of making yourself impossible to be misunderstood." - Cicero

"Fish"

The problem with English is that it's an incredibly imprecise language. There are far too many subtleties and meanings to words. It's why people are so often misunderstood on the internet/email/letters.

Mentat: I don't worry about Google autocomplete because I just want the result. Word autocomplete annoys me though. I prefer to get the word correct myself since it's something I'm actually creating.

I don't know you guys live with that shiat, it would drive me crazy to have my machine changing my words. Only if I ask how to spell something.

I also think those autocorrect jokes are spectacularly unfunny, so there's that.

cryinoutloud: Mentat: I don't worry about Google autocomplete because I just want the result. Word autocomplete annoys me though. I prefer to get the word correct myself since it's something I'm actually creating.

I don't know you guys live with that shiat, it would drive me crazy to have my machine changing my words. Only if I ask how to spell something.

I also think those autocorrect jokes are spectacularly unfunny, so there's that.

You sound madison.

Recent autocorrect generations are actually an example of the ability of a technology to outstrip functionability. Older iterations seemed simpler, better, and less prone to be wrong.

Further consideration may lay the blame on the screen keyboard.

Jerkwater:

Something you never see on these type of posts.....full signal bars

Could Web-search algorithms make spelling a lost art? ... To find the latest on Afghanistan, just type "Afg" and select from the options in the drop-down autocomplete menu.

That's a very poor argument. Not too long ago, there was no way to look up something other than through the dictionary or encyclopedia. You didn't have to know how to spell any better for that; you just had to keep flipping pages.

king_nacho: DamnYankees: Making spelling obsolete is a good thing. The point of language is communication, not spelling.

We should probably just move our language to some glyph based writing, that way we just draw pictures of things instead of using letters.



/hot

StanleyPuff: king_nacho: DamnYankees: Making spelling obsolete is a good thing. The point of language is communication, not spelling.

We should probably just move our language to some glyph based writing, that way we just draw pictures of things instead of using letters.



/hot

WTF is with the one in the top right? It looks like someone's ass with a cum splatter on it.

No. You know what's gonna be the end. farking "Reply All."

Today, somebody that I sent 5 attachments to sent all 5 of those attachments to me again, so that he could send them to somebody else. I guess he thought I gave a shiat that he was sending to someone else. To someone else who already had them because I had included that person in my email. So he sent all those attachments to everyone I had already sent them to, for no goddam reason.

Yeah, I know, it's a super-cool story.

Smelly Pirate Hooker: No. You know what's gonna be the end. farking "Reply All."

Today, somebody that I sent 5 attachments to sent all 5 of those attachments to me again, so that he could send them to somebody else. I guess he thought I gave a shiat that he was sending to someone else. To someone else who already had them because I had included that person in my email. So he sent all those attachments to everyone I had already sent them to, for no goddam reason.

Yeah, I know, it's a super-cool story.

Hey, can you return my nude photo I sent you? I need it back to send to someone else. You've had it long enough anyway.

Also, don't you have to hit "Send" or somesuch before you send a text? So what kind of retard doesn't read a message before he/she sends it? Esp. to a boss or their mom?

I realize I answered my own question. I do enjoy the DYAC-worthy farkups, just sayin'. You're stupid if you send messages that you didn't bother to read.

Smelly Pirate Hooker: Also, don't you have to hit "Send" or somesuch before you send a text? So what kind of retard doesn't read a message before he/she sends it? Esp. to a boss or their mom?

I realize I answered my own question. I do enjoy the DYAC-worthy farkups, just sayin'. You're stupid if you send messages that you didn't bother to read.

I dunno. It's quite possible. I've had a number of posts where I didn't read bac

Some are fighting back.

http://twitter.com/stealthmountain

BurnShrike: Smelly Pirate Hooker: No. You know what's gonna be the end. farking "Reply All."

Today, somebody that I sent 5 attachments to sent all 5 of those attachments to me again, so that he could send them to somebody else. I guess he thought I gave a shiat that he was sending to someone else. To someone else who already had them because I had included that person in my email. So he sent all those attachments to everyone I had already sent them to, for no goddam reason.

Yeah, I know, it's a super-cool story.

Hey, can you return my nude photo I sent you? I need it back to send to someone else. You've had it long enough anyway.

I (almost) wish I got nude photos via email. All I get is work, sometimes multiple times.

Smelly Pirate Hooker: I (almost) wish I got nude photos via email. All I get is work, sometimes multiple times.

You're on the internet. How hard can it be to get men to send you nude photos?

I'm not gay, and I've had men send me (unsolicited) nude photos.

DamnYankees: Making spelling obsolete is a good thing. The point of language is communication, not spelling.

Communication can only be effectively achieved when standards are in place and followed by all parties. Have you learned nothing from the browser wars?

My significant other would be lost without autocorrect/complete, as can't spell worth a dam. Smart, smart man but he failz at teh spellings. Sometimes I get near indecipherable text messages from him as his phone apparently lacks the auto correct feature. Time to get him a knew one.

specialkae: My significant other would be lost without autocorrect/complete, as can't spell worth a dam. Smart, smart man but he failz at teh spellings. Sometimes I get near indecipherable text messages from him as his phone apparently lacks the auto correct feature. Time to get him a knew one.

What you may or may not have done there, I might see it.

BurnShrike: Smelly Pirate Hooker: I (almost) wish I got nude photos via email. All I get is work, sometimes multiple times.

You're on the internet. How hard can it be to get men to send you nude photos?

I'm not gay, and I've had men send me (unsolicited) nude photos.

I said "almost." As in, "if I HAVE to choose between getting the same farking files that I just sent someone else and nude pictures of strangers, I guess I'd choose the nude pics." Lesser of two evils and all that. I'd prefer to get neither. As I'm at work, I'm not going to solicit nude pictures.

Smelly Pirate Hooker: BurnShrike: Smelly Pirate Hooker: I (almost) wish I got nude photos via email. All I get is work, sometimes multiple times.

You're on the internet. How hard can it be to get men to send you nude photos?

I'm not gay, and I've had men send me (unsolicited) nude photos.

I said "almost." As in, "if I HAVE to choose between getting the same farking files that I just sent someone else and nude pictures of strangers, I guess I'd choose the nude pics." Lesser of two evils and all that. I'd prefer to get neither. As I'm at work, I'm not going to solicit nude pictures.

Well yeah.. no one wants to see a man naked. We got all the ugly wrinkly bits.

I read what I type out before I submit it. It works wonders for avoiding stupid auto-correct errors, and takes minimal time.

DamnYankees: Making spelling obsolete is a good thing. The point of language is communication, not spelling.

Your totally rite.

/note how I just communicated that I'm a dumb ass by misspelling my post.

PeregrineBF: I read what I type out before I submit it. It works wonders for avoiding stupid auto-correct errors, and takes minimal time.