My spellchecker is perverted...

[Kit-Ginevra]

Today's report write up...

'There was a member of staff vaping in the doorway'

Word not recognized:vaping

Did you mean 'There was a member of staff fapping in the doorway'

No.No I didn't




Lousy pub anyway.Got everyone's steak wrong and whilst waiting for the meal,there was a cry from the kitchen of 'I've lost the till keys'

[Gizmo]

You *hope* that you didn't anyway....

[Seanette]

If you read the offerings on damnyouautocorrect.com, it seems to be quite common for spellcheck to take the most vulgar possible option.

[BPFH]

Ah, spellcheck/autocorrect...

As an experiment, my sister once ran spellcheck over a fiction writing assignment, and took the first suggestion for every "misspelled" word. Nothing got quite as vulgar as vaping -> fapping, but she did wind up with a character named Amend Molehills...

[wolfie]

One version of PC-Write (DOS-based word processor - still have it on floppy somewhere) handled its spellcheck suggestions by asking:

Replace (unrecognized word) with (suggestion)?

Many years ago, when I was writing to my mother about purchasing my first car, the brand I had bought wasn't in the dictionary, so it asked "Replace Hyundai with Honda?". Later versions of PC-Write had an updated dictionary that recognized Korean cars. Never thought I'd get automotive advice from a word processor.