What is your worst smartphone autocorrect fail so far?

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  1. deltatux

    deltatux Guest

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    All of us by now know how many companies have been coming up with their own implementation of autocorrect that's suppose to make our typing life easier on cell phones. Some of us, know about the website Damn You AutoCorrect. Sometimes the fails are so hilarious you wonder if the screenshots were faked.

    Now here's the question, what has been your worst autocorrect so far?

    Personally, this happened to me earlier today:
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    Context: My colleague who was just newly hired at the McDonald's that I work at currently (yes I know, I have a McJob, it's the thing that pays for my gadgets and games). She was wondering if she was truly underpaid by accident so I was asking which pay period she was referring to but...

    What's your worst autocorrect fail so far?

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  2. Pilgrim1942

    Pilgrim1942 Guest

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    But is it really necessary to use "autocorrect" when texting? :)
    Really do fancy a Samsung Galaxy S II for my next upgrade in the spring, but if I end up sending texts like the ones shown on "Damn You, Autocorrect!" the appeal is wearing a bit thin. ;)
     
  3. mikeva901

    mikeva901 Master Guru

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    I was texting a lass the other day and she asked me what I would like for tea, I meant to reply Spag bol (spaghetti bolognese) but my iPhone auto corrected it to "Slag bol" not good times haha :bang:
     
  4. FULMTL

    FULMTL Ancient Guru

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    I don't use auto correct, but I have often texted people while my phone was in my pocket.
    This was the other month and it goes on for about 10 more texts before I even feel my phone vibrate. Still funny to me at least.
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    I'm just glad it spammed my cousin and not a girl.
     

  5. deltatux

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    It actually does since I do use Swype, it requires autocorrect to function lol.

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  6. John

    John Ancient Guru

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    My phone autocorrected "my condolences" to "my condom" yesterday when I wrote a message to someone who just lost his father to cancer. Luckily I noticed it just before sending it.

    Suffice to say that crap is now disabled.
     
  7. IcE

    IcE Don Snow

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    Oh god that would have been bad if you didn't catch it lmao
     
  8. Glidefan

    Glidefan Don Booze Staff Member

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    It seems phones are going through the teenager stage :p
    Autocorrect is the first thing i disable.
     
  9. nm+

    nm+ Don Cappuccino

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    This is why I have a real keyboard on my phone. Autocorrect sucks.

    Funny stuff though.
     
  10. WhiteLightning

    WhiteLightning Don Illuminati Staff Member

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    totally agree, my current HTC HD2 sucks because of that. next phone will include a kb
     

  11. Labyrinth

    Labyrinth Ancient Guru

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    I just hate the HTC keyboard altogether

    Seriously turn off the dam "Vibrate on key press" and the dam thing still does it... then try typing in Xda developers on Google and it suddenly changes it to Sea developers just as i press search
     
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    I was waiting for my best friend to get here and her 9yo sister was chatting to me on msn about anime (i was signed in on my phone). Once she got here i just said "Your sis just got here!" or something like that and then i thought i put in "sec brb 5".. 2 min later my friend got a phone call, she came in to the kitchen and asked me why her little sis thought we were having sex.. i missed the c in sec x.x. Probably not a auto correct mistake but still i blame the phone touch keyboard thingy.

    I still get teased about it T_T!
     
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    That's just wroooooong.
     
  14. Anubis

    Anubis Ancient Guru

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    epic xD

    Don't have autocorrect enabled, but sometimes my messages don't make any sense, cause I type fast and usually don't even check the spelling..
     
  15. BLEH!

    BLEH! Ancient Guru

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    Never have liked predictive text/autocorrect, always have 'em turned off.
     

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