You auto-complete me
October 16, 2008 – 10:55 amCan you spot the word that was “revised” by my phone’s ever-so-helpful auto-complete feature?
Me: How’s your hotel?
Jay: Long story — are you home?
Me: No… Waiting while the students workshop. Long story?? Everything ok?
Jay: It’s a b&b with a shared bath.
Me: Log!
Yes sirree, “ooh!” became “Log!” just as I pressed SEND…
And that’s the story of how I got a full-on case of the giggles right in front of my class full of students.
The end.
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By Auds at Barking Mad on Oct 16, 2008 | Reply
*lol* That’s hilarious!
My 18 year old daughter, who sends on avereage of 6000 (I am NOT kidding) text messages a month, swears by T9 (auto complete)…I have never ever been able to use it and get it to create sentences that were literate.
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By scarlett on Oct 16, 2008 | Reply
I am not enamored with my iPhone auto complete either. It keeps changing my son’s name to Sudan.
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bananas Reply:
October 16th, 2008 at 5:17 pm
That also gives me the giggles. It regularly changes one of CJ’s friends’ names to “nude”. Imagine Jay’s expression when I told him that CJ was playing with nude. heh.
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By Kimber on Oct 16, 2008 | Reply
That is hilarious. I can’t stand the autocomplete because it is always changing my words to something that never makes sense. Luckily my new phone doesn’t have that feature, or at least it doesn’t appear to.
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By Debbie on Oct 16, 2008 | Reply
Just thinking about you giggling made me giggle. And I just love it when a machine insists it is smarter than me!
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By Wendy on Oct 16, 2008 | Reply
See, that’s not a long story…men make such drama. :) I wish I had an iphone to make me laugh. Wahhhh.
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By Erin on Oct 16, 2008 | Reply
I agree with Wendy, I want one of those just to give me a giggle.
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By HeatherY on Oct 16, 2008 | Reply
I can only imagine the look on your students faces. lol! Your doing way better than I am. I don’t even know how to use auto-complete!
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bananas Reply:
October 16th, 2008 at 5:16 pm
Ok, JUST FOR YOU, here’s a mini-tutorial on how to use auto-complete.
You type in “ooh!”
It changes it to “log!”
the end.
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By the planet of janet on Oct 16, 2008 | Reply
auto-complete is an unending sours of amusement.
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By wendy on Oct 16, 2008 | Reply
Oh, that IS funny! Blog becomes clog for me! ;)
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By Mrs. Flinger on Oct 16, 2008 | Reply
Oh, I should go through my archives and show you some of the STUPIDEST things I’ve done in front of my students. No, wait, I won’t. But the “being in front of a class” thing? I’m totally Ross from Friends.
It’s a blessing I didn’t have an iPhone.
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By Halloween Doll Clothes Gal on Oct 17, 2008 | Reply
LOL - great tale.
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By Kathleen on Oct 17, 2008 | Reply
oh yes, the vagaries of helpful technologies…bane of my existence!
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By jubilee on Oct 19, 2008 | Reply
tee hee. now I get it. (I must admit that I was confused as to what this post was about until I read through the comments. I am a texting newbie and never even heard of auto complete. Is that sad?)
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By Heidi on Oct 20, 2008 | Reply
I am still learning all the text abrev. I keep sending what does “insert word abrev” mean here? Passing along a little award for you!
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By Eugene on Oct 20, 2008 | Reply
Now everyone is talking about the American economy and eclections, nice to read something different. Eugene
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By daring one on Oct 20, 2008 | Reply
You’ll have to get Eve to tell you her auto-complete story sometime. It’s a keeper.
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By midwest mommy on Oct 21, 2008 | Reply
How funny is that!
sounds like something that would happen to me.
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By MadWoman Meg on Oct 21, 2008 | Reply
Is this why I keep putting off getting a cellphone??
I can just picture you giggling in front of your students. I wish I’d had a teacher that did that.
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By Michelle Kemper Brownlow on Oct 25, 2008 | Reply
OH MY GOSH!
I would have peed my pants !LOL!
I can’t even use the dumb auto-complete thing on my phone b/c it never knows what I am trying to say and then I end up arguing with it like I would my husband when he tries to finish my sentences.
Thanks for the giggle!!
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