Can 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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October 16, 2008 at 12:46 pm
*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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October 16, 2008 at 12:49 pm
I am not enamored with my iPhone auto complete either. It keeps changing my son’s name to Sudan.
October 16, 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.
October 16, 2008 at 12:56 pm
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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October 16, 2008 at 2:05 pm
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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October 16, 2008 at 2:53 pm
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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October 16, 2008 at 4:52 pm
I agree with Wendy, I want one of those just to give me a giggle.
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October 16, 2008 at 5:10 pm
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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October 16, 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.
October 16, 2008 at 5:47 pm
auto-complete is an unending sours of amusement.
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October 16, 2008 at 5:50 pm
Oh, that IS funny! Blog becomes clog for me! ;)
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October 16, 2008 at 6:56 pm
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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October 17, 2008 at 7:21 am
LOL – great tale.
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October 17, 2008 at 2:41 pm
oh yes, the vagaries of helpful technologies…bane of my existence!
October 19, 2008 at 7:34 pm
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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October 20, 2008 at 1:45 pm
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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October 20, 2008 at 3:41 pm
Now everyone is talking about the American economy and eclections, nice to read something different. Eugene
October 20, 2008 at 11:20 pm
You’ll have to get Eve to tell you her auto-complete story sometime. It’s a keeper.
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October 21, 2008 at 6:21 pm
How funny is that!
sounds like something that would happen to me.
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October 21, 2008 at 9:13 pm
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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October 25, 2008 at 8:19 pm
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!!