You’ve written a beautiful missive,
About a proposal of marriage,
And then, how absurd, A-C changes a word,
And boy, does it do some serious damage!
Oh, I’m singing the auto-correct blues!
You won’t get the word that you choose!
Check every word, or some slur will be inferred,
Examine, dissect, yes peruse!
You’ve written a note to your mother,
Telling her how much you miss her,
Then autocorrect uses its ” intellect”,
And manages to really ‘diss’* her!
Have you heard of the autocorrect blues?
They are sure to blow your every fuse!
It injects a word that gives your loved one the bird**,
When you set out to seduce, yes, to schmooze!
You’ve written a heartfelt message,
Bearing your very soul,
Then auto-correct runs rough- shod and unchecked,
And scores a horrendous own-goal !
Oh, I’m singing the auto -correct blues,
Designed to offend and abuse,
Don’t take my word, go see what’s occurred,
And the ghastly fall-out that accrues!
Now I wouldn’t mind if auto-correct showed some sense,
When it thought to so kindly correct my letter,
But most of the time it replaces a word with one that is dense,
Often meaningless, but certainly not better!
Oh, I’m singing the auto-correct blues,
That system designed to confuse,
It is bad, it is sad, and at best, it is mad,
And it creates its own set of taboos!
* diss = speak disrespectfully to or criticise
** give someone the bird = to jeer at someone
That is why mine is turned off. It only takes one episode…
Rubbish system!
Just the other day I texted someone I was at Quik Lube giving my cat an oil change.
Irritable….NO irrepressible….NO irritating!!!! There we go.
A terrible ‘advancement’
Ha! Oh the joys!
I love this!! You are so creative. And the blues are so true. That doggone A-C!!
nice to connect via UBC
Happy to connect via UBC too! Glad you liked it!
You made me realize how happy I am with my outdated piece of rubish mobile phone 😉 Thanks Kind regards David
Oh lucky you! I always forget to turn the darned thing off!
I have several good autocorrect stories. One of the cleaner ones involves a text I sent to my son Sunday, when we were 150 miles apart. I had to text him to go to a furniture store where I live called Olums to pick something up for me. I texted “Olums” but it came out “Plums”. I’m so happy it wasn’t something obscene. Of course, I discovered it about 3 microseconds after I sent the text. Isn’t that how it always happens?
Absolutely! There are some classic ones on the net! Autocorrect makes me shudder!
Yes I have experienced this many times. BTW giving some the bird here is giving them “the finger”, ie saying F you.
A wee bit more offensive but on a bad day we are much the same!