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15 of the Worst Auto Correct Failures

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When typing on an iPhone, its auto correction tries to fix your mistakes. But here is what can happen when auto correct goes horribly wrong!


Entering text on a smartphone can be a bit tricky due to the small size of the keyboards that you have to work with. On a slab device like the iPhone, this is made even more tricky by the fact that you don't have physical keys, and thus are very likely to make mistakes, hitting the wrong letters and typing things that you didn't intend.

Fortunately, Apple has implemented a pretty decent autocorrection system on the phone that makes guesses about misspelled words and corrects them the the ones that you meant. Or at least it tries to...

Sometimes autocorrect can go horribly wrong with embarrassing and shocking results.

A site called "Damn You, Auto Correct" has archived some of the more interesting and hilarious examples of this phenomenon. I'm pretty hard pressed to read this site without laughing out loud. Here are some of my favorite screenshots from this site.

Expensive Canadians

Dad's hard... hat?

It's an emergency!

In Godzilla we Trust

Being productive at work

How to score with your girlfriend

A different kind of pet grooming

Antibacterial lovin'

Mom's new line of work

You can't do that on Ebay

No, not weird at all...

Time for a shower?

The new varsity sport

Pampering your lover

Dad's new obsession

The moral to be learned here is this: Always proofread your text messages before you hit that send button!

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Comments

el_esponjoso Tuesday, May 17, 2011 9:29:20 PM

ha ha ha lol lol

Mom's new line of work is most embarrasing faint

Daniel HendrycksDanielHendrycks Tuesday, May 17, 2011 9:37:01 PM

lol

mike-bak Tuesday, May 17, 2011 10:11:29 PM

LOL, Very nice
lol lol lol lol

d4rkn1ght Tuesday, May 17, 2011 10:13:09 PM

lol

Stevesgunhouse Tuesday, May 17, 2011 11:39:40 PM

Seen it last year (posted on /.) ... still lol funny.

Abhinavdecodedthought Wednesday, May 18, 2011 6:01:07 AM

lol lol

Sergiu Jurcajsiulian Wednesday, May 18, 2011 10:24:17 AM

Or another moral: get rid of your iphone haha

Tamil Wednesday, May 18, 2011 2:39:34 PM

mozila Thursday, May 19, 2011 4:31:19 AM

lol lol

Nathan RodriguezNathanRodriguez Thursday, May 19, 2011 6:38:23 PM

lol

Joeljgm21 Thursday, May 19, 2011 10:27:35 PM

lol geezus!! is very funny lol

Lancelot Whtiakersirlance709 Friday, May 20, 2011 2:12:34 AM

bigeyes Wow! some of that was straight up Jerry Springer type $ht! But funny as hell tho!!!lol lol

Edwin Pallenspallense Friday, May 20, 2011 2:50:15 AM

this is to funny

Cenon Manansalaurbanwind91 Friday, May 20, 2011 10:03:48 AM

LMFAO!

pratyusha sharmapratyusha12 Monday, May 23, 2011 10:55:20 AM

I have come across some damn u auto results will be definitely an add on to the above ones. You'll crack up laughing lol http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10150175423248785.291390.59911933784

pratyusha sharmapratyusha12 Thursday, May 26, 2011 8:33:26 AM

Originally posted by pratyusha12:

I have come across some damn u auto results They will be definitely an add on to the above ones. You'll crack up laughing lol http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10150175423248785.291390.59911933784


Foodie Ianfoodies Wednesday, June 1, 2011 12:50:29 PM

Funniest thing i have read in a long time

Shein45 Thursday, June 2, 2011 8:07:17 PM

Yes I did not read anything amusing:)

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