Things that are amusing me at the moment...

[awanderingbard]

My mum asked me to "pass [her] the Internet" tonight. She meant the iPad, which does indeed have an internet on it, but for a moment I went 'um, I don't think the internet will fit in my arms?' in my head before I figured out what she meant.

Also: Bandersnatch Cummerbund. This is totally the name of the Benedict Cumberbatch tribute band. That I just started. Right now. Anyone want to join?

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[aelfgyfu_mead]

A simple typo would trigger the autocorrect on the first name—I'm guessing something like "Banedict." If they'd had "Benedict" right, it should have stayed.

I once had a student turn in a paper where she'd run AutoCorrect without looking. It was about Arthur and his knight Balin—or, as Microsoft Word made them, Author and his knight Balloon. She was mortified when I showed her: every blessed occurrence of each name had been changed. You'd think Word could handle Arthur, too, but this was a number of years ago, and apparently it couldn't.

[awanderingbard.livejournal.com]

I used to rpg with a girl who had a character named Kenadie and everytime I wrote the word, it would politely ask if I meant 'gonads'. I've just recently learned d the wonders of autocorrect since my dad got an iPad. It's often times very useful, but when it messes up, it messes up bad.