The top 15 most popular DYAC texts of all time.
I’m so glad I don’t own anything with auto correct. All my fuck pants are my own.
No, faux pas! I really did type faux pas!
I would think that the iPhone would be smart enough not to correct to words like that. Sure, it might be confusing if you are cybering over text message, but that’s a lot better than throwing the words out in normal conversation.
Thank you so much for making me laugh my brains out. Too hilarious.
(why did I think of: all your fuck pants are belong to us?)
“I have a bad case of the manboobs.”
You too? Getting old sucks, doesn’t it?
Maybe I just don’t understand this autocorrect thing, being a Luddite with a dumbphone, but wouldn’t these words at least have to share the first letter? E.g. number 14. And in that one, would “cookies” be a more frequent word, or is that not how it works?
When I use T9 on my phone, it changes “movies” to “mother.” There have been situations were the conversation would turn veeerrrrrrrry Freudian if I didn’t preview my text first.
These aren’t actual errors that really happened, and that’s why the link isn’t so funny.
The autocorrect on the iphone isn’t T9 style. It uses a touchscreen keyboard and guesses at what you meant to say when you mistype something (or correctly type something it doesn’t know).
Of course. The odds are that one is real, right? Right?
I’ve watched over a shoulder or two, but it was probably mostly Blackberries and Androids and such. Does it change the letters you explicitly typed? Like if I type “dyraight,” will it guess at “straight”? Or will it “lock in” letters as you type them, which was my initial thought?
It’s more likely that a fair few are real, and that only a handful are faked.
The “Swype” keyboard on my android phone tries to use context to figure out what you mean. It’s a Qwerty keyboard setup, but you don’t press each letter individually (though you can), you just put your finger on the starting letter you want, or thereabouts and “swipe” it in the vague pattern of the letters you want. You do a little loop to double up on a letter (like the ‘oo’ in loop). The thing is that this is not a very spot-on method and you might cross three or four letters (or more) that aren’t part of the word you intend. That’s where the context comes in. It uses a combination of the most frequently used words in your phone memory + all possible permutations of words that match your swipe pattern to figure out what you mean. If it gets confused, it does pop up a list and ask you to choose the word you mean, but if you’re not paying attention and just go on typing regardless, that list disappears pretty quickly and it defaults to the top word on the list.
An example from my own phone is shit/shift. The swipe pattern for shit does go near the ‘f’, so it could conceivably be “shift”. But I type shit a whole lot more than shift. So on the odd occasion where I have intended to write shift, the phone has decided I meant “shit” - which has resulted in me writing “I need to shit the bed” when I was talking about shifting some furniture around.
Fuck and duck is another good one. Again. I write fuck a hell of a lot more than I write duck. Until the day I wrote I was ducking behind a building…
And inadvertently told my mum I was fucking behind a building.
So a combination of lazy typing, plus excessive use of expletives or slang can result in some really, really odd autocorrects on new generation phones. It’s not like the old T9 at all.
Not as embarassing as many of the best ones, but I’ve always had a soft spot for Frobisher, myself. It’s the sort of autocorrect that I used to get fairly regularly.