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Scott Belyea (scottbelyea) wrote: "Infuriating"? Come now. "Mildy annoying," OK, but my personal reservoir of fury isn't deep enough to waste on trivialities such as this.

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Tim Quinn (timquinn) wrote: They put this in there to piss off people who get mad at anything.

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AndBobando wrote: I just tried swyping "abortion" on my Android device and it worked like a charm. And considering the controversy around Siri when you tried asking about abortions, I wouldn't be so...

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Mark (squeakyanimal) wrote: Occam's razor tells me that Apple puts stuff like this into their software just to see if they can get Cory enraged.

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Tim (Brainspore) wrote: AndBobando said: I just tried swyping "abortion" on my Android device and it worked like a charm. Swype isn't the same thing as autocomplete. The suggestions that pop up for...

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Apple's mobile devices have a secret list of "sensitive" words that don't...

David Forbes (nixiebunny) wrote: The very first thing I did when I got an iPhone was to turn off autocorrect. I think I had read too many of those joke websites showing it correcting 'epi pen' to...

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redstarr wrote: If you're going to text words like "abortion", you should probably care enough about what you have to say to not need the autocorrect. For most of us, that's not a casual conversation...

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AndBobando wrote: Sure, but the principle is the same, in terms of the "but what if I text something embarrassing by accident!" defence. Swype could have chosen not to include "abortion" in their...

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Apple's mobile devices have a secret list of "sensitive" words that don't...

redstarr wrote: It might be cool if they added a special feature to the autocorrect that flagged all of a list of sensitive words before you send. It would make it so that if something had...

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marco (dragonfrog) wrote: Yeah, if I text that "I've spent all morning reading about abolition", or "I can't chat now, I need to go for my ablutions" and autocorrect swaps in "abortion" - that could...

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Apple's mobile devices have a secret list of "sensitive" words that don't...

Edwin Gore (edgore) wrote: But "The shrimp made me swell up like a balloon! Thank God I was able to jab myself with an epic penis" is, maybe, the best text you could ever send...

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Box of Cotton Swabs (swabbox) wrote: Apple’s mobile devices have a secret list of “sensitive” words that don’t autocomplete I'm pretty sure Android does something like this. So maybe “Mobile devices...

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Apple's mobile devices have a secret list of "sensitive" words that don't...

James Penrose (jimp) wrote: From the various comments, I presume it is impossible to actually see the message you are sending on these things? I've never understood how that would be a benefit. If you...

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Renoun (renoun) wrote: I've had the opposite problem with my Android phone. We spotted whales in the water and in my text "Orca" got corrected to "orgasm" without me noticing.

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Lange_Scott (Scott3) wrote: Thats why my ex girlfriend phoned me and said she could not text me and say yes she was still a virgin and no she was never a victim of rape

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Boundegar wrote: The clasic from damnyouautocorrect: Your father and I are going to divorce this summer.Disney! Not divorce! Disney!

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Apple's mobile devices have a secret list of "sensitive" words that don't...

tré (tre) wrote: A lot of people aren't that astute when they're texting. I know I've had some autocorrect issues that have come out funny (though thankfully not embarrassing; the one that comes to...

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Michael Smith (Michael_R_Smith) wrote: I was once involved in writing sofware for variable message signs on freeways. We had a list of slogans to display when the sign was otherwise idle, one of which...

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fuzzyfuzzyfungus (fuzzyfungus) wrote: Only those whose purity of mind is equal to our purity of design deserve our products.

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teapot wrote: You are talking about autocorrect, as opposed to autocomplete. They are similar, but slightly different in that autocorrect changes words it perceives typed incorrectly whereas...

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