Wednesday morning, I got a text from Genius, showing a gloomy day in Pittsburgh out his window.
"It's SNOWING!"
"That makes me cold."
Of course, I'm always cold. And we've already had our first snow. Not that I wasn't excited for Genius. I would have thought he'd get snow before us. Anyhoo... I went on to say:
"You need to make a big pot of chili."
Well. Good thing I looked at it before I hit send. That dang Autorcorrect had changed my words! Specifically, it changed CHILI to CHILD!!!
I also informed Genius of that attempted trickery. He thought it was funny. I stopped short of typing my theory that Autorcorrect is the devil. Genius is quite dismissive of my conspiracy theories. But seriously... in what kind of world does an app replace CHILI with CHILD in a context like that?
The Pony also laughed when I told him, and said, "Darn those satanists!" He doesn't buy into my conspiracies either, but at least he will joke about them.
6 comments:
My auto correct just makes up words. Sometimes there are only a couple of original letters in the new word. Sometimes it could be embarrassing. I try to always read before I send. But I forget from time to time.
The app doesn't take note of context, that's its biggest fault I think. Maybe you should use a double L in chilli just to be sure next time.
Pudge450,
I guess I expect too much from Autocorrect. Even my estranged BFF Google can pretty much pop up with the right word if you give it a few letters. Autocorrect seems to go out of its way to insert unrelated words!
River,
That won't fly with Genius. He would ridicule me to the ends of The Universe for such a 'misspell.' You know, from one valedictorian to another. The height of his high horse would be astronomical!
But he would understand if you explain why?
River,
Who knows? Genius shuts down at the very mention of one of my conspiracies. He has hung up the phone, and walked out of the room. I say he gets his judge-iness from Farmer H!
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