These are pretty funny. It’s actually pretty amusing that there’s a whole site devoted to this.
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These are pretty funny. It’s actually pretty amusing that there’s a whole site devoted to this.
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Too bad the vast majority of them are fakes… Really, do people think that many of those words are in the iPhone autocorrect dictionary? Hardly.
Some of them may be fake but I can assure you that the iPhone autocorrect is such an excrescence that none of those are implausible.
I do have an iPhone, and text with it frequently. I know how it behaves.
And I can assure you that such an uptight company as Apple would never put ‘fellatio’ and ‘anal’ into their spellcheck autocorrect database. Just think about it.
And really… We are supposed to believe that any plausible misspelling of ‘future’ would be turned into “fürher”??? Please. Put on your skeptical cap for a minute.
Lars, I have an iPhone too, and I don’t doubt these for a moment. I’ve seen this phone do some really funny substitutions, including the word “anal.”
Hi Lars,
I just checked and anal, fellatio and fuhrer are all in the notepad dictionary (no red underline). Typing “Fuhr” auto-completes to Fuhrer. I can imagine other misspelling leading to silliness.
In any case, the iPhone autocorrect is pretty awful and I have no problem ascribing the level of fail described on that site to it.
Joe
Bear in mind that most phones will also remember previous manual corrections you’ve made. If you’re using T9 and it suggests one word and you use another, generally it will use that word the next time. Some of the anal people (heh) most likely actually used those words at some point.