# Swypos **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 31, 2019, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/swypos/845666 "2019-12-31T13:58:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Ruken](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f475e1/32.png) [@Ruken](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ruken)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2019, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/swypos/845666/1 "2019-12-31T13:58:05Z")
Many of us use a swype-based typing on our phones. Sometimes the error-correction and predictive algorithms produce amusing results. My latest: equivalent --\> Warhammer ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2019, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/swypos/845666/2 "2019-12-31T14:53:22Z")
Nicotine—nether region. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2019, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/swypos/845666/3 "2019-12-31T15:25:17Z")
Makes perfect sense, actually. ---
**Author:** ![naita](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/naita/32/5862_2.png) [@naita](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/naita)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2019, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/swypos/845666/4 "2019-12-31T15:37:34Z")
swype has recently decided my swype of “open” should be interpreted as “porn”. It also insist on interpreting “people” as “purple”. The annoying thing is I almost never intend to write porn or purple. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2019, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/swypos/845666/5 "2019-12-31T16:59:08Z")
I once made a typo that my phone tried to correct to “the n-word.” Trying to rack my brain to remember when I would have typed _that_, I remembered in a CS thread on _Luke Cage_ mentioning that the series would be 37 minutes long (or something like that) if every instance of “the n-word” was edited out. (I’m _really_ glad I caught that one before it went out.) ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2019, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/swypos/845666/6 "2019-12-31T17:13:22Z")
> [@naita](#): > > swype has recently decided my swype of “open” should be interpreted as “porn”. It also insist on interpreting “people” as “purple”. The annoying thing is I almost never intend to write porn or purple. You should write a whole story about purple people opening a porn shop. ---
**Author:** ![Mama\_Zappa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/71e660/32.png) [@Mama\_Zappa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mama_Zappa)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2020, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/swypos/845666/7 "2020-01-07T22:02:40Z")
My daughter fell recently and was worried she’d pinched a nerve. I tried to say that she might have shooting pains down her leg if she had done that. Then i corrected the mis-Swype, and added “If you experience shooting pigeons down your leg, please call 911 or Animal Control”. “Thanks” seems to autocorrect to “Themis”. “Just” -\> “Judy”. We’ve decided that “tinstoning” = “driving in sucky, slow, bumper-to-bumper traffic on the interstate”. I was telling someone that my husband was attempting to drive home, and somehow what i sent was “… is attempting tinstone”. Last summer, we had booked an AirBnB on Ile d’Orleans (sorry for lack of accents there). I was communicating with the landlady. Swype did not grok French. Evidently I said we were going to “manager” dinner, among other mis-translations. ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2020, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/swypos/845666/8 "2020-01-07T22:56:23Z")
> [@naita](#): > > swype has recently decided my swype of “open” should be interpreted as “porn”. It also insist on interpreting “people” as “purple”. The annoying thing is I almost never intend to write porn or purple. “The shop is porn. I can see purple in there.” ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2020, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/swypos/845666/9 "2020-01-07T23:00:26Z")
I have never once intentionally typed the word “duck” into an instant message. Someday, I hope my auto-correct figures this out. ---
**Author:** ![naita](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/naita/32/5862_2.png) [@naita](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/naita)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2020, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/swypos/845666/10 "2020-01-07T23:43:55Z")
> [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#): > > You should write a whole story about purple people opening a porn shop. On my phone? I have enough trouble motivating myself to write as it is! ---
**Author:** ![TruCelt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trucelt/32/523_2.png) [@TruCelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TruCelt)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2020, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/swypos/845666/11 "2020-01-07T23:51:13Z")
> [@Miller](#): > > I have never once intentionally typed the word “duck” into an instant message. > > Someday, I hope my auto-correct figures this out. We should trade sim cards. I’ve had the opposite problem, which you must admit has far more potential for disaster. ---
**Author:** ![Aspidistra](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspidistra/32/3894_2.png) [@Aspidistra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspidistra)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2020, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/swypos/845666/12 "2020-01-08T00:57:41Z")
The cafe nearest my kids (now former) primary school is “The Rubber Duck Cafe” and forms the basis of a lot of very short messages within my friend group, frequently consisting of just “Duck??” Luckily, none of our phones have **Tru-Celt** ’s problem… ---
**Author:** ![TruCelt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trucelt/32/523_2.png) [@TruCelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TruCelt)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2020, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/swypos/845666/13 "2020-01-08T17:02:25Z")
> [@Miller](#): > > I have never once intentionally typed the word “duck” into an instant message. > > Someday, I hope my auto-correct figures this out. > [@Aspidistra](#): > > The cafe nearest my kids (now former) primary school is “The Rubber Duck Cafe” and forms the basis of a lot of very short messages within my friend group, frequently consisting of just “Duck??” > > Luckily, none of our phones have **Tru-Celt** ’s problem… :eek: :rolleyes: 😃 ROFL!