https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/stupid-auto-correct Style Advice for Fashion Lovers en-US Sun, 26 Apr 2026 15:06:56 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/search.php https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/stupid-auto-correct#post-1283720 Fri, 20 Jun 2014 22:39:35 +0000 Mia 1283720@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Every time I think about turning it off I realize I would miss the funny things it does. &nbsp; Great stories ladies.</p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/stupid-auto-correct#post-1280443 Tue, 17 Jun 2014 20:09:11 +0000 Suz 1280443@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>JAileen, I am (or may be) everlastingly grateful. We shall see if it works on the computer!!&nbsp; </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/stupid-auto-correct#post-1280382 Tue, 17 Jun 2014 18:43:41 +0000 Liz 1280382@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Adelfa, that is hilarious! </p> <p>(Though, "planful" as a word?&nbsp;What in the...?? Maybe her autocorrect is set to de-jargon mode.&nbsp;)&nbsp; </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/stupid-auto-correct#post-1280251 Tue, 17 Jun 2014 15:22:41 +0000 texstyle 1280251@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I net hair have that hairpin. Ha! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/stupid-auto-correct#post-1280076 Tue, 17 Jun 2014 10:40:56 +0000 rute 1280076@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>eh eh I have the same problem with my ipad! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/stupid-auto-correct#post-1280012 Tue, 17 Jun 2014 05:19:08 +0000 Deborah 1280012@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Jody they are such funny stories.&nbsp; I laughed out loud.&nbsp; Thank you for sharing. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/stupid-auto-correct#post-1279993 Tue, 17 Jun 2014 04:39:49 +0000 Adelfa 1279993@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I have two. Last week an ailing supervisee sent me an email to let me know he wouldn't be in. The subject line was "Out Dick."</p> <p>Today my ailing boss texted me about what to cover in a certain meeting. She finished, "This should be done in a playful way." This wouldn't be the first time she thought I was too serious or hard driving, so I dutifully texted back, "I will be playful." </p> <p>Twenty minutes later she texted, "Just reread emails meant planful way damn autocorrect couldn't figure out why u said playful now I know" So I was left with the awful spectre of imagining my boss, sick with stomach flu, wondering to herself for 20 minutes, "Why the hell is Jody going to be playful at the meeting?" </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/stupid-auto-correct#post-1279669 Mon, 16 Jun 2014 22:57:55 +0000 Lyn D. 1279669@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Funny!<br />I think Ellen Degeneres devotes a regular segment to hilarious /Rube auto-corrected texts </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/stupid-auto-correct#post-1279662 Mon, 16 Jun 2014 22:38:52 +0000 JAileen 1279662@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>You can turn off auto correct. On an iphone or ipad it's in Settings/General/Keyboard. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/stupid-auto-correct#post-1279607 Mon, 16 Jun 2014 21:26:08 +0000 kerry 1279607@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Me too IK! </p> <p>That autocorrect drives me crazy. Sometimes I feel like I'm arguing with it on my iPad or iPhone! </p> <p>One of my daughter's many nicknames is gal. When texting my husband it often autocorrects to Hal. I just leave it now. We have friends whose daughter's name is Ruby - they often call her Rube. When texting each other, they'll refer to her as the Rube - you can just imagine what that autocorrects to! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/stupid-auto-correct#post-1279500 Mon, 16 Jun 2014 19:12:02 +0000 Ledonna N. 1279500@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Ironkkurtin lol </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/stupid-auto-correct#post-1279452 Mon, 16 Jun 2014 18:12:00 +0000 ironkurtin 1279452@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I would be so happy if someone said my girls looked great.</p> <p> </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/stupid-auto-correct#post-1279368 Mon, 16 Jun 2014 16:59:42 +0000 Suz 1279368@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>The bane of my existence! Seriously - -it happens all the time to me as well, working on my laptop or my desktop. It's the preemptive thing, I suspect.&nbsp; </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/stupid-auto-correct#post-1279273 Mon, 16 Jun 2014 14:51:58 +0000 abc 1279273@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I have the same problem - and also what Astrid mentioned because I have English and Spanish on my devices, switching between the two often. &nbsp;My iPad seems to be the biggest offender. &nbsp;I think it is the pre-emptive thing, bc sometimes I notice as I'm typing it puts something there that's WAY wrong - but if I keep typing it fixes itself to be what I typed (usually). &nbsp;</p> <p>So anyway yeah I usually overlook typos and strange stuff here since I know it happens to all of us.</p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/stupid-auto-correct#post-1279189 Mon, 16 Jun 2014 13:02:02 +0000 Neel 1279189@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>You read my mind! I was going to start a similar thread too. Should we high five? O_O </p> <p>I have gone back to my posts to see words that make no sense at all (some weird spell check gone wrong!). Thankfully we do not have *those* grammar guru posters and spell check posters like in other forums who would make fun of you endlessly when you make a mistake O_O </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/stupid-auto-correct#post-1279177 Mon, 16 Jun 2014 12:42:50 +0000 Mander 1279177@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Tee hee!</p> <p>I usually catch it but sometimes not.&nbsp; Most of the time it's funny, so I just leave it -- especially if I am texting DH. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/stupid-auto-correct#post-1279138 Mon, 16 Jun 2014 11:37:18 +0000 Kim 1279138@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Awww, you probably made Anna's day! LOL&nbsp; </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/stupid-auto-correct#post-1279098 Mon, 16 Jun 2014 10:18:55 +0000 Ledonna N. 1279098@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Yes, I do and it is very upsetting, text to phones do the same things uh auto correct stop it. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/stupid-auto-correct#post-1279095 Mon, 16 Jun 2014 10:09:41 +0000 Astrid 1279095@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I don't have auto correct on my computer, but I do have those word suggestions on my phone. I have both English and German activated, because typing English without it is really bothersome. But sometimes I hit the wrong word, especially if they are so similar. My phone usually thinks I want to write German, so there are German words in between english ones if I don't pay attention. I could deactivate the German but that takes too much time to do it every time I want to write something in English. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/stupid-auto-correct#post-1279093 Mon, 16 Jun 2014 10:02:51 +0000 Deborah 1279093@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Actually I think it's the preemptive text thingy rather than auto correct. It assumes the word you are going to type and sometimes I miss it. I try really hard to check before I post but.... </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/stupid-auto-correct#post-1279081 Mon, 16 Jun 2014 08:21:44 +0000 Ornella 1279081@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Yes Yes Yes!&nbsp;<br />I totally get this.</p> <p>So often that in fact I was thinking of starting a thread like this myself.</p> <p>I would do the same as Gigi and caro, BUT my hands have hard time catching up with my brain and by the time I correct some things I may loose an original thought... or, since the brain sees what the brain wants to see, I sometimes don't even notice the typos until I return to my own text some time later - and then "shock, horror!" :o</p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/stupid-auto-correct#post-1279078 Mon, 16 Jun 2014 08:09:50 +0000 Caro in Oz 1279078@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I do the same as Gigi. I was an editor so I want the last say :):) </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/stupid-auto-correct#post-1279067 Mon, 16 Jun 2014 07:21:48 +0000 Gigi 1279067@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Hmm, I don't have an autocorrect. I do notice a spelling thingamabob that will put a dashed red underline beneath&nbsp;words that aren't in its dictionary&nbsp;(like "Birks"), so that I can examine the word and see if I want to change it. But I get the final say, not the computer. :)</p> <p>In the U.S. too, "girls" can have the same meaning you mentioned. Ha ha. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/stupid-auto-correct#post-1279061 Mon, 16 Jun 2014 06:33:06 +0000 lyn* 1279061@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I bet "the girls" did look great </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/stupid-auto-correct#post-1279049 Mon, 16 Jun 2014 05:53:40 +0000 Deborah 1279049@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Often when I check back on&nbsp;a post to read further comments after mine, I am horrified to see that the gremlins in my devices have not produced the word I was typing!!&nbsp; Ever happen to you??</p> <p>I was just follow up on Anna's floral birks post and to my horror, I had typed<br />"the girls look great".... girls should have been "birks".&nbsp; Here in Aus 'the girls' can&nbsp;be and&nbsp;is used to reference ones breasts!!&nbsp; </p> <p>So should any of you read something equally as silly as this in any of my comments (and I am aware there have been a few), I apologise in advance and trust I never offend anyone:)</p> <p>Wanna make me feel better and share some funny auto corrects in your comments???</p> <p>Go on...</p> <p>xxx </p>