Autocorrect this

I recently got an iphone 4 ( about 4 months back) and it has been an infuriating life from then. Dont take me wrong. I love the phone.  It truly is amazing. The features on it are just amazing and dont get me started on the apps. They are simply wonderful and a very very interesting way to while away your time. The problem is even before my i-fantasy came about i have been hooked, line and sinker into the Blackberry world. I cant live without my blackberry as i have been using it for almost 6 years now and love the utility i get out of it.

So two phone, both equally cool and essential. The issue was carrying them both so pretty soon my iphone became my leisure phone and my blackberry my official phone. But over the past few weeks i have been tinkering around with my iphone and ipad more than the usual amount and thats when i found it to be at its most infuriating level. 

We have all been used to the autocorrect feature in all our phones over the times and more often than less we have learnt to use the phone without this feature turned on. But since i am using my iphone very minimally, i never bothered to do that. 

Last week i was typing out a big mail on my ipad when after typing out i checked the screen to read through my output. The result was hilarious. The iOS had decided that i was trying to talk about something other than what i have typed out and had deemed it necessary to autocorrect my input. 

One of the mails that i had typed out was regarding my new office stationary.. I had wanted my letterhead in executive bond paper. My ipad had thought i am a pervert and decided that i needed executive bone. 

In another, an entire chat with the word Machi had become machine. poda had become soda. ur became us. yeah obviously some of these are easily recognizable and correctable but what happens if you miss some of them. The result can sometimes come about really funny. 

So i decided to do the next logical thing. I went on the net and searched for such epic fails of autocorrect. Guess what? there is an entire site dedicated to such humongous fails of the iphone's feature. 

Check them out here. Some of them are dirty and disturbing and i need to give a disclaimer here. Although i enjoyed every minute on that site i am not promoting it in anyway. I dont want to be castrated later on by my already meager readers. 

One example that i really really liked. 

Talk about being honest to your wife...

 

yeah right...i believe that one...pen indeed

I also recently heard of a team member who messaged his boss saying that his mom is unwell asking for permission and the very next message that was sent was discussing about a movie that he was planning with a friend...coincidence??? i think not. That too has happened a lot to me. And as usual i went on the net to get some more examples of such epic fails. Found a few too.

Makes all my texts and mails look so lame and normal...lol