My great-nephew 2

[djj55]

The teacher asked the class my six year old great-nephew is in, to write down what they wanted to be when they grow up. My great-nephew wrote CHEF. Not that he wants to be a chef, but he did not know how to spell astronaut.

A boy after my own heart. I am constantly rephrasing posts as I do not know the proper spelling of a word.

I do not know who said it, but “Wonderful thing a dictionary, if you know how to spell”.


djj
The Lord is my shepherd (Psalm 23) - I need someone to lead me!

 

[SantaMufasa]

“Wonderful thing a dictionary, if you know how to spell”.

As you probably know, the need to spell correctly is no longer a requirement for effective use of a dictionary. Most on-line dictionaries allow "close" to receive a prize since the dictionary lists suggestions of words you might mean if your spelling is incorrect.

Mufasa
(aka Dave of Sandy, Utah, USA)
“People may forget what you say, but they will never forget how you made them feel.

 

[mintjulep]

Hey, astronauts gotta' eat...

 

[johnherman]

I'm quite familiar with spell checker and autocomplete. Spellchecker wants to change my Wifi to Wife.

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Sometimes the grass is greener on the other side because there is more manure there - original.

 

[tcsbiz]

I'm quite familiar with spell checker and autocomplete. Spellchecker wants to change my Wifi to Wife.

Auto-complete is a complete disaster on smart phones (or, not-so-smart phones as my great niece would say). Texting on devices has created a culture where those that are heavy users can't spell simple words. They think that everyone understands the abbreviated syntax. The ability to spell and use language correctly used to be revered. Now, in some groups, it is reviled.

 

[razalas]

Santa Mufasa,

so if DJJ's nephew had an online dictionary available, he might want to be a chief instead. But I don't see how that would have helped him to get to be an astronaut.

Code what you mean,
and mean what you code!
But by all means post your code!

Razalas

 

[djj55]

I missed out on the joys of bringing up a child, so little things like this bring a smile to my face. I will be taking him to the zoo in a couple of weeks which I hope will be an experiance for both of us. The zoo currently has an animated dinasour exibit.

djj
The Lord is my shepherd (Psalm 23) - I need someone to lead me!

 

[flapeyre]

Reminds me of a New Orleans joke:

A citizen reports a dead horse on Tchoupitoulas Street. He calls the police.

The cop answering the phone can't understand him.

The guy says, "Never mind, I'll just drag it over to Camp Street."

-- Francis
Francisus ego, sed non sum papa.

 

[flapeyre]

Auto-complete is a complete disaster on smart phones (or, not-so-smart phones as my great niece would say).

Damn You, Autocorrect
Caution: Most of these are NSFW. Wait till you get home.

-- Francis
Francisus ego, sed non sum papa.

 

[djj55]

Once had a text from a lady where it switch boy to toy.

djj
The Lord is my shepherd (Psalm 23) - I need someone to lead me!

 

[hjgoldstein]

Once sent a text to my wife to tell her that I had bumped into a friend named Katrina. It sent "Latrines" instead.

Aspiring to mediocrity since 1957

 

[kwbMitel]

There are websites dedicated to faking text messages. I suggest you take any screen shot with a grain of salt.

Proof:

http://i.imgur.com/eGOcYyE.jpg

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What's most important is that you realise ... There is no spoon.

 

[djj55]

kwbMitel, the text message I saw was real. I teased her about and when she looked was amazed that it said toy.

djj
The Lord is my shepherd (Psalm 23) - I need someone to lead me!

 

[KornGeek]

When I send a text with the word "leaving", my phone tends to want to change it to "lesbians".

This makes things awkward if I don't carefully check my texts. For instance, when I text my stepdaughters to let them know I'm coming to pick them up on my way home from work. My simple text of "I'm leaving" can cause all kinds of hilarity.

 

[kwbMitel]

@djj55 - My skepticism pertains to screenshots such as those on the website that flapeyre linked to, not anything else. We've all received, or sent, an embarassing auto-correct at one time or another.

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What's most important is that you realise ... There is no spoon.

 

[djj55]

kwbMitel, sorry missed the link.

djj
The Lord is my shepherd (Psalm 23) - I need someone to lead me!

 

[philhege]

Reminds me of a New Orleans joke:

The L.A. version uses Sepulveda Street.

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With business clients like mine, you'd be better off herding cats.

 

[flapeyre]

The L.A. version uses Sepulveda Street.

Sepulveda is easy compared to Tchoupitoulas, which is what you get when you try to transcribe an extinct tribe's name in French.

The French language has a lot of peculiarities - spelling being only one. It's probably the wordiest of the Romance languages, partly due to the French Academy resisting with all its might the introduction of loanwords into the language. Nonetheless, most of the French people would say they had un sandwich for lunch, not deux tranches de pain avec quelque chose au milieu - literally "two slices of bread with something in the middle," which is how L'Académie Française would want you to say it.

Spanish, at least, is pronounced consistently with its spelling.

-- Francis
Francisus ego, sed non sum papa.