WTF @ Microsoft autocorrect!

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I was just typing an email to my friend who'd asked after my kitten (whose attempts at flying I've mentioned on another thread) and I mentioned that he'd had chlamydia, which is a different disease in cats and isn't an STD, just a normal contagious disease. And Outlook capitalised the word "Chlamydia"! WTF is that doing in autocorrect??? I tried a few more - gonorrhea, syphilis, herpes etc, but it didn't do them.

Sorry I was just somewhat amused by the oddness of that happening!

― Colonel Poo (Colonel Poo), Friday, 8 September 2006 13:45 (nineteen years ago)

That's a proper name for girls.

... What?

― Young Fresh Danny D (Dan Perry), Friday, 8 September 2006 13:47 (nineteen years ago)

first word in a sentence?

― Lazy Comet (plsmith), Friday, 8 September 2006 13:47 (nineteen years ago)

Genus of plants?

― g00blar (gooblar), Friday, 8 September 2006 13:48 (nineteen years ago)

No no it was mid-sentence - this is the full sentence:

Pogo’s eye is a bit goopy at the moment so we’re worried he’s got Chlamydia again

― Colonel Poo (Colonel Poo), Friday, 8 September 2006 13:48 (nineteen years ago)

Sounds like you and Pogo have more important things to worry about than Autocorrect.

― nabisco (nabisco), Friday, 8 September 2006 13:50 (nineteen years ago)

btw dude that is NOT a sentence until it has some more punctuation.

― Lazy Comet (plsmith), Friday, 8 September 2006 13:52 (nineteen years ago)

Haha OK WTF it's an email to a friend who gives a shit about punctuation it's probably missing a comma at most (actually there was a full stop at the end I just didn't copy and paste it)

― Colonel Poo (Colonel Poo), Friday, 8 September 2006 13:54 (nineteen years ago)

just messin yo - hope pogo gets better!

― Lazy Comet (plsmith), Friday, 8 September 2006 13:57 (nineteen years ago)

I noticed once that Outlook wants to call Friendster, fraudster. I chortled.

― M. White (Miguelito), Friday, 8 September 2006 13:59 (nineteen years ago)

four years pass...

http://damnyouautocorrect.com/4077/10-most-popular-autocorrects-from-december-2010/

http://damnyouautocorrect.com/images/broken-penis.jpg

― Mark G, Thursday, 6 January 2011 11:55 (fourteen years ago)

one year passes...

iphone makes wfmu say Edmund

― kneel aurmstrong (harbl), Monday, 6 August 2012 00:17 (thirteen years ago)

iphone makes ilx say I'll if it's the first word of a sentence, but Liz thereafter

― Lee626, Monday, 6 August 2012 08:51 (thirteen years ago)

HRH ILX II, celebrity Lizor

― Jeremy Clarkson Sex Face (snoball), Monday, 6 August 2012 09:12 (thirteen years ago)

nine years pass...

saw this on another thread. probably a SwiftKey thing rather than autocorrect but

Guinness -> volunteer

my phone still insists on putting 'civic' when i type COVID (although i think it's learning, or i am)

and when making shopping lists i always get Dallas for salad and Brad for bread

― koogs, Saturday, 18 December 2021 08:34 (three years ago)

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