Disturbing iPhone auto correct moment

Tonight I was attempting to text the words "Yellow and..." when I accidentally missed the space bar and typed "Yellowa". My iPhone's auto correct immediately changed it to "Yellowcake".

Seriously?! Are there really that many people texting about processed uranium that "Yellowcake" makes it into the auto correct menu?

One time I was walking out of the office late, and in a hurry to pick up my wife. I was texting "on my way" as I was walking out the door, and glanced down just as I hit Send to see it had autocorrected to "injured"!

My wife cooks yellow cake all the time. It's especially good with homemade chocolate sauce.

Is she Iranian?

Woody wrote: Is she Iranian?

No, maybe a little redneck though.

and people wonder why I do not own an iPhone

For real. Tell me there's a way to turn that junk off.

www.damnyouautocorrect.com you'll be crying

Uh-oh, watch out for black helicopters Woody...

http://www.globalnews.ca/quebec+man+arrested+as+terrorist+for+sending+text+message/6442573078/story.html

I was out climbing in the gunks last weekend and tried to send a text to my wife using the text to speech engine. I fired it up and before I could say a word the wind had written "berkeley, berkeley, berkeley, berkeley, berkeley..."

I shouldn't have taught it bad words.

I guess no one has watched "The Chapelle Show" episode where he lampoons Bush.

for some reason yellowcake has tried to jump in from even more unrelated words, but for a complete waste of time, and coworkers looking at you like a laughing idiot, there's http://www.damnyouautocorrect.com/

"Girllllll show me your tortoise!"

I was typing oooooooooooo for some reason, and it tried to autocorrect to oooooooooobituary. I have a screen shot of it somewhere.

Joey

Yellowcake is dessert for people who don't know that there are spaces between words.

mad_machine wrote: and people wonder why I do not own an iPhone

A lot of the "autocorrect" jokes you see are fakes. There's a bunch of generators out there that can whip them up.

Hence, the problem is highly exaggerated.

You can also turn it off.

I have noticed the iPhone seems to have a much broader dictionary of technical terms (lab, science, IT, etc) than Microsoft word manages. Perhaps some of the early users were Nuclear scientists?

Osterkraut wrote:

mad_machine wrote: and people wonder why I do not own an iPhone

A lot of the "autocorrect" jokes you see are fakes. There's a bunch of generators out there that can whip them up. Hence, the problem is highly exaggerated.

the iphone also "learns" what words you use, so a lot of them people probably think are fake because it doesn't happen on everyone's phone, the reality is that they probably used whatever dirty word that got inserted at some point in another text. so, just think about that for a moment.

EvanB wrote: You can also turn it off.

Especially with qwerty keyboards/pads now, it's really unnecessary, except for using it when you really shouldn't be (driving).

Back when everything was T9 (and text messages were limited to 150 characters) I could type conversations faster without autocorrect than with.