My wife enjoys texting her three sisters to keep in touch.?ÿ She suffers from arthritis in her thumbs after years of throwing pots (both at me and on a potter's wheel).?ÿ I told her to turn on AutoCorrect and AutoText and the phone will correct her spelling and fill in the rest of long words or phrases so she doesn't have to type everything.?ÿ I warned her to be careful and read her texts before sending because the phone will on occasion select the wrong word or phrase!
Saturday, my wife was reading a text from her older sister and all of a sudden burst out laughing; uncontrollable laughter.?ÿ When she finally calmed down she said her sister texted that she wasn't feeling very well.?ÿ Her sister had attempted to type, "I may have a blockage in my intestines."?ÿ However the text was both autocorrected and predicted a wrong word.
She typed "I may have a blockage in my i" but when she went to type the "n" she fat-fingered it and hit the space bar instead.?ÿ The phone auto-corrected the "i"?ÿ to "I" and she continued without noticing typing, "test" and accepted the suggested word without reading it.?ÿ
The sent text read, "I may have a blockage in my I testicles."?ÿ OUCH!
Ripley's Believe It Or Not is looking for her. ?????ÿ
Well, it cuts both ways when auto fix it can't detect an error. For example some years ago we did some road pavement strength testing, and the secretary emailed out the results, with the subject title being "Testes Results" - nothing wrong with that.
You will probably need a dose of penicillin for that..........
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One little letter makes the difference between ?ÿpresidential election and a presidential e_ection.
Ok, so here's one of my inventions/notions, that will undoubtedly appear in production tomorrow: A word processor with a Freudian Slip checker.
