"What hath Spell-check wrought?" Topic

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John the OFM	23 Dec 2012 5:12 p.m. PST
While typing up a Marketplace ad, I typed "hypaspist". Spell-check helpfully suggested "hypnotherapist". Nice try! It has the usual problems with "wargame".
John the OFM	23 Dec 2012 5:21 p.m. PST
Oh, and "hoplites" are "shoplifters".
Waco Joe	23 Dec 2012 5:37 p.m. PST
So that is where the Greeks get the gifts of which we are to be aware.
Whatisitgood4atwork	23 Dec 2012 5:38 p.m. PST
Hmmm. Interesting tactical possibilities. Get the hypnotherapists to make the enemy act like chickens while the shoplifters loot their village.
SECURITY MINISTER CRITTER	23 Dec 2012 10:30 p.m. PST
I one time typed Pontic, and it suggested the name of a local guy who had brutally murdered his girlfriend. I would have at least expected Pontiac.
Rrobbyrobot	23 Dec 2012 10:43 p.m. PST
Obviously a system developed by the under educated.
SECURITY MINISTER CRITTER	24 Dec 2012 1:34 a.m. PST
Or better yet when it tell you that you've misspelled plurals.
John the OFM	24 Dec 2012 7:52 a.m. PST
Latest: "Zouaves" become "Suaveness". Film at 11:00.
StarfuryXL5	24 Dec 2012 8:44 a.m. PST
"Damn you, Autocorrect!"
Jovian1	24 Dec 2012 1:41 p.m. PST
Try telling SIRI to play "Gangnam Style" on your iPhone – and see what you get – we got "I don't see condom style in your playlist, would you like me to search the web for it?" Thank you SIRI, but NO!!
Henrix	25 Dec 2012 3:01 a.m. PST
A dyslectic friend wrote a text about Anticimex, a swedish pest control company, and extra-nordic (as in the nordic countries, 'utomnordiska', in swedish) bugs. It ended up as a very weird piece having something to do with anti-Semitic extraterrestrial ('utomjordiska') bugs.
John the OFM	25 Dec 2012 8:30 a.m. PST
I think I blew up Spell Check with "cuirassiers". It suggested "weirstrasse", whatever the heck that is.
Jeremy Sutcliffe	29 Dec 2012 10:49 a.m. PST
I've had no trouble at all with this sort of thing until I started using a Kindle Fire. The arrogance of its predictive text in assuming it knows what I mean better than I do is more than a little annoying.

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