Revealing mistakes

[EmilyMiller]

At work, I just mailed a colleague, and I quote:

Great - when I am out of my current meeting, I will find us a slut.

Luckily she found it amusing.



Have you ever done anything similar?

Em

 

[MrPixel]

At work, I just mailed a colleague, and I quote:

Was this from your phone? You do realize, of course, that the autocorrect learns "most used" words.



This hasn't happened to me since I generally don't use devices with autocorrect (phone texting the exception). I once sent a big email to our orchestra director with my and C's extended travel itinerary to which he replied "Why did you send this to me?" Turns out the auto-fill in the email app selected the wrong contact with the same (unusual) first name.

Tech that "does things for you" to be helpful so frequently is not!

 

[Euphony]

At work, I just mailed a colleague, and I quote:



Luckily she found it amusing.



Have you ever done anything similar?

Em

I imagine your auto-correct would result in incarceration in a majority of countries on the planet.
(keep up the honest work)

 

[theWollstonecraftWoman]

Um, no I've never ever done anything that revealed I was thinking of sex. Are we playing that game? Do I have to take shot now?

 

[EmilyMiller]

Was this from your phone? You do realize, of course, that the autocorrect learns "most used" words.

It was from a PC.

But my own phone loves adding “anal” when I text Mom.

Em

 

[EmilyMiller]

Um, no I've never ever done anything that revealed I was thinking of sex. Are we playing that game? Do I have to take shot now?

Yes

 

[MrPixel]

It was from a PC.

Ah. A PC that wasn't. So ironic.

 

[theWollstonecraftWoman]

Yes

Okay, well, bourbon burning the back of my throat.

 

[djrip]

Ok so it's easy to mistype Comcast. As Cocmast. It's become a bit of a running joke.

 

[emme8]

Ok just to reteach auto correct.
I like PENCILs and I'm going to learn to COOK with ORGANIC ORGANISMS like carrots and broccoli.

 

[JaxonHill]

Internal Company Messaging System:

Me: Is Cindi (name changed) out this week?

Boss: Yeah, she's having an operation done.

Me: Oh yeah, the anal reconstruction thing. I forgot, thanks.

My boss called me on the phone after that. Somehow Nasal turned into Anal... don't ask me how...!

 

[Kumquatqueen]

My personal devices and my work phone and laptop never mix! They have very different autocorrect ideas...

Worst I get is dodgy captions in meetings. Autocaptions really struggle with names and initialisms. There was a bad spell where it kept assuming KD was the word 'naked' and claiming my boss said "I'm naked".

 

[EmilyMiller]

I should add that my faux pas was not autocorrect-related. Brain on autopilot-related, possibly.

Em

 

[MrPixel]

Oh, I have a couple for y'all. About 40 years ago [...gawd, I'm old...], I was running a large document preparation operation. Big client came in wanting us to help with a proposal for a high-profile government bid - for the Space Shuttle. The company was "United Space Boosters", a division of United Technologies.

The proofreaders brought it to my attention they found "Untied Space Boosters" in the first section of the document. I started poking around, and it wasn't just once. I had to write a program to search for all instances of "Untied", especially since it looked perfectly fine to the spell checker. There were quite a few... maybe dozens... peppered throughout the 1500-page proposal. Somebody's word processor obviously had a serious dyslexia issue!

Worst I get is dodgy captions in meetings. Autocaptions really struggle with names and initialisms.

Yep. Also long ago, there was my wife's work associate who ran the "vidifont" on-screen caption generator at the PBS station they worked at. Back then it was a live, on-air operation. LeRoy was working a beauty pageant presentation, and instead of "Miss Georgia Pageant Presented by Georgia Public Television", it was, you guessed it, "Miss Georgia Pageant Presented by Georgia Pubic Television".

LeRoy was reassigned to something a little less on-air the following day.

Gawd. Can you tell I'm stuck on the story I'm writing? Gotta do something else... anything else... geez.

 

[joy_of_cooking]

I once started an email with

Hell Mr. (my boss),

It went out to the whole department. Somebody read it out loud in a strong Southern accent. (And if you've never been mocked in a Kazahkstani man's idea of a strong Southern accent, let me tell you, you are missing out.)

 

[Emilymcplugger]

At work, I just mailed a colleague, and I quote:



Luckily she found it amusing.



Have you ever done anything similar?

Em

My three favourite mis-spellings of “good afternoon” all corrected in time.

Good afternoob
Goof afternoon
Good afterboob

 

[MrPixel]

Good afterboob

You made my day!

 

[JaxonHill]

You made my day!

Sounds like the normal pre-coitus process to me.

 

[BarracudaSwordfish]

Not one of mine unfortunately, but when I was very young my local newspaper went into raptures about an equalising goal for my football (soccer to the majority on here) team, which was "a screaming thirty yard shit into the top corner."

 

[theWollstonecraftWoman]

There was a typo in a local paper a few years back. "The officer was shot six years ago, and the bullet is still in his yet." What the fuck is a yet?

 

[alohadave]

Not one of mine unfortunately, but when I was very young my local newspaper went into raptures about an equalising goal for my football (soccer to the majority on here) team, which was "a screaming thirty yard shit into the top corner."

Reminds me of this little gem from 4chan:

 

[onehitwanda]

I referred to our insane spider's web of cloud infrastructure as our Topolology yesterday. It was entirely unintentional and got a good chuckle from my boss and others.

 

[Devinter]

I accidentally asked someone for a threesome in an email once. It doesn't translate well, because it was not written in English, but rather my native tongue of Swedish - where the word for threesome is exactly the same as the word for triangle. I don't know who's great idea that was, but then again, the Swedish words for Married and Poison are also exactly the same..

Fortunately, it didn't have any awkward consequences! We just laughed about it.

 

[ElectricBlue]

I remember in High School, we were studying coral reefs in Geography, Australia having the Great Barrier Reef and all. Homework was set, requiring a bit of study.

"Hey Charlie," asks the teacher, "how are coral reefs made?"

"Lime secreting orgasms, Sir."

A collective "what the...?" from the girls, laughter from the boys.

"That's 'organisms', Charlie," says the teacher, but gave him an A anyway.

 

[Devinter]

I remember in High School, we were studying coral reefs in Geography, Australia having the Great Barrier Reef and all. Homework was set, requiring a bit of study.

"Hey Charlie," asks the teacher, "how are coral reefs made?"

"Lime secreting orgasms, Sir."

A collective "what the...?" from the girls, laughter from the boys.

"That's 'organisms', Charlie," says the teacher, but gave him an A anyway.

If he brought the orgasms, he certainly deserved that A!