[Thanks to anon]
Autocorrect Follies, Pogue article.
if you type “holy moly,” you wind up with, believe it or not, “holy molybdenum.” (“Molybdenum [noun]: the chemical element of atomic number 42, a brittle silver-gray metal of the transition series, used in some alloy steels.” Don’t you hate it when your phone is smarter than you are?)
And here are some auto-correct samples from Wired. But frankly, Pogue's article has many more, and better ones. He used his immense Twitter audience to help compile them. (I get a headache just thinking about sorting through, selecting, and editing the thousands of responses he must have gotten.)
2 comments:
He has people to do that for him. he once said to me, "I have people to do that for me." Oh, wonderful. Another apposite word verification. Terse.
“Holy molybdenum, Batman!” - Robin, boy wonder
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