Damn autocorrect!

[LonePirate]

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Josh @billingsley313

My pregnant wife texted me a selfie in a new dress and asked "Does it make my butt look big?" I texted back "Noo!" My phone autocorrect my response to "Moo!"

Please send help!

[Cracklin Charlie]

1. You're toast, Josh.

Best stop by the florist on the way home.

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2. Autocorrect is my worst enema

[DashOneBravo]

9. ..

Maybe if we fart we could spell better. We could turn it off.

[PoliticAverse]

3. How many divorce lawyers tweeted back? n/t

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

4. Is it not possible to turn off auto correct?

I'm asking because I don't have a smart phone, just a dumb one so that although I can text, it does not auto correct. And I don't seem to have auto correct happening when I type here, or when on a Word document, or anywhere else I type.

[crazycatlady]

6. I was skeptical of touchscreen phones due to auto correct

I remember the website Damn You Auto Correct (and mine's made me into a cannibal when texting about a bbq-- I was grilling children instead of chicken).

It actually helps me. I also turn on the predictive text and I've completed entire texts that way. As soon as I type in 'hi', it suggests 'this is [crazycatlady] from [employer] (the intro text for so many of mine).

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

7. I happen to be an excellent and fast typist on a regular keyboard,

which is party why I so despise texting. Give me a real keyboard any time and I'll out type almost anyone. No auto correct needed. If I ever get a smart phone I'll make sure that's turned off immediately.

[crazycatlady]

8. You can also verbally dictate a text with most modern smartphones

I send roughly 5000 texts a month (a lot of group ones), mostly for work.

But I was an early adapter of texting (started in 2001) and am of the texting generation (b 1980). I've been known to text someone right next to me before.

I'm fine on a regular keyboard too, but computer communications while on the go requires finding a McDonald's, Starbucks, etc with wifi.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

10. How does that dictation differentiate between

they're, there, and their? Or its and it's. Or is that sometimes why those things are wrong. I simply don't text all that much myself, not like you.

[lunatica]

5. Mibe fors tje samne thiebf!

Piddes ne odd a lor!