Auto(in)correct
Article Written by Ben Zimmer
This article is about the newer generation of smart phones and how their auto correction feature can completely obliterate the meanings that were meant to be conveyed by the person texting. For example, in the article they explain how a girl received a text message from her father reading, “next week your mother and I are going to divorce next month.” In shock, she replied to him and he sent back a message saying, “I wrote ‘Disney,’ and this phone changed it. We are going to Disney.” While it is funny in retrospect, this has happened numerous times to anyone that owns an iphone, some type of droid, or another smart phone that has an auto correcting feature. This has inspired Jillian Madison to start a group called D.Y.A.C (short for Damn You Auto Correct!) in which users submit their auto correct follies and are later posted on the internet. It has become such a big hit that she is publishing a book containing all of the best entries. It is due out in March.
Personally, I have received some pretty hilarious auto correct mistakes. Nothing as serious as my parents letting me know they’re getting a divorce, but nonetheless they can be pretty funny. I also think it’s comical how people pounce on things like this and are able to make a ton of money off of it. Other sites that I think about when I heard about D.Y.A.C are sites like “FML” and “Texts from last night”. And let’s not forget the most successful one so far, “Sh*t My Dad Says” which started out with a guy posting funny quotes his dad has said on twitter, and it very quickly became a published book and is now also a TV show on CBS starring William Shatner. This site sounds like another great way to kill time and laugh the whole way.
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