I put the shotgun in an Adidas bag and padded it out with four pairs of tennis socks
From before the Forever War:
http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/UnixReview/col38.html
Auto-correct is known to be the cause of many a hilarious text misunderstanding, but when one student sent a message to say they were "gunna be" at school and the word became "gunman", you can imagine the chaos it would cause. Particularly in America. That is exactly what happened to one student at Lanier Technical College in …
surely, if you are so lazy as to not write 'going to' the correct (well, kind of) abbreviation is 'gonna'.
thicko can't even do 'txt spk' right!
remind me again, what do they teach kids at school? surely in the days of smart phones it takes 0.0001 of a second to write real words now.
even my barely literate boss (no joke) can write on an iphone.
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"remind me again, what do they teach kids at school?"
Evidently not capitalisation.
So you've never used an abbreviation or colloquialism when talking with or writing to friends? You've never hit send on an old T9 phone only to realise you've asked a friend if he fancied a 'riot in the sub'?
Everyone makes a mistake from time to time. Give the kid a break.
i also cant be arsed to capitalise when im on forums. i guess people are smart enough to understand a word if it doesnt have a capital. you also notice that i dont bother with apostrophes either.
i was mainly joking when i said about the teaching in schools, as in they dont teach abbreviations properly any more.
Not sure about the phone in question, but my Samsung makes it harder to misspell than to do it right. Misspellings bring up correction options which take longer to get rid of than swiping the proper word. I imagined that this was the case on most phones these days. I seem to think even my nokia 6310i balked at mispelt words.
Anyway, it makes the autocorrect website seem so much more believable now, which is comforting. :)
Why should the yoof of today even bother with txt lnguage? Back in the day of 3310s and such like, pay as you go customers wanted to get the most out of a £10 top-up. Solution? Txt spk tht only needed 2 fit in 160 chars. It's an excuse for quick discussion, but serious? No need with iMessage, BBM and unlimited texts.
Again, quack!
Why is the word "gunm4n" even in the auto-correct dictionary to start with? It isn't a word any sane person would include in a text message.
Does it insert obscenities too?
Surely it wouldn't be too difficult to come up with a list of sensitive words where the damage caused by inserting it accidentally far outweighs the benefit of not having to type it in full?
"It says in this article that the gunman had an Indian passport when..."
"Hey, you wanna go see 'The Second Gunman' at Uppity Theater?"
"The Register ran a story about some kid's autocorrect turning 'gunman' into 'gunman', and his school gets locked down!"
...And did you just self-censor 'gunman'?
Also, I've wondered what happens when it's a female. 'Gunwoman' is awkward. Gunlady? Too prissy. Gungirl? Too comic. Gundame? Too manga. Seriously, what's the standard?