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Predictive text bloomers

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DoraMarr Fri 09-Nov-18 19:21:31

I’ve often invited my children to a smart dinner.

stree Fri 09-Nov-18 18:18:57

I thought predictive text worked by inserting words that had been used quite often in earlier texts?

ninathenana Fri 09-Nov-18 14:59:20

Predictive on my phone is turned off but if I need to go back and edit anything the text will then appear in what I subsequently type.

Example :

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy doxjmpslzy.
That's after correcting my deliberate mistakes angry
How do I stop that ?

cavewoman Fri 09-Nov-18 14:10:45

My son was amused when I invited him to join us down at the local for a riot!

lemongrove Fri 09-Nov-18 13:45:31

Freudian slip POGS ? grin
Predictive text does throw up some real howlers though.

POGS Fri 09-Nov-18 13:38:16

My predictive text years ago put ' willies ' instead of ' wellies'.
on a post I once sent on Gransnet years ago.

JoyBloggs Fri 09-Nov-18 13:11:18

When my mother was recovering from an illness I wrote a text to my children 'Just to let you know that Gran is on the mend, she's now dating and drinking'. (My mum was about 90 at the time.) I noticed just in time and of course changed it to 'eating and drinking'!

giulia Fri 09-Nov-18 12:21:06

Predictive text drives me constantly up the wall. The latest was this: informing my daughter of what I would be preparing for a special meal together, the stupid thing converted steak pies into steel piers and jacket potatoes into hacker potatoes. I ask you!

And do you notice how many changes seem to be sexual?? ... the words "bed" and "sex" often take over from very ordinary words.

Anybody else remember any other strange conversions?