Auto corrupt... err ...auto correct!

Icorrect the auto correct more than it corrects me, do you do it too?

Ok, let me marshal my facts here... Just the other day in our office group the boss put a beautiful photograph of himself and his wife... the picture was taken as the couple sat on a fallen log somewhere in the woods. So Kapil an enthusiastic probationer from our office thought it would be appropriate to put a comment over there. He therefore went ahead to type “lovely photograph” only it got posted as “lonely photograph” courtesy the all wise guy ‘Mr Auto correct’ who thought that it ought to be “lonely” and not “lovely”, so it changed it as such.

What was even worse, before Kapil could undo the damage the boss texted him back- “You are fred!”... The probationer replied- “No, sir I am Kapil”.

“No, I meant ‘you are fired!’, damn the autocorrect” the boss texted back ;)

Ok a joke’s a joke, but if you are getting my drift... this feature is a double edged weapon.

Also called as text predictor it’s like an over enthusiastic dumb charades player... I want to type “I am going to grab a burger” but Mr Auto correct starts its guessing game... soon as I type “I”... it just goes ballistic with its suggestions- “l love”, “I hate”, “I can”, “I can’t”... in short every thing but “I am”. Afterwards, I want to type “going” and the wise old auto predictor starts its predictions once again. I have hardly typed “go” in “going” and it goes from “good” to “good morning” to “good afternoon” to “good night” even “good luck”.

Then to further complicate matters there’s good old Google, with its “auto-complete” feature for those too lazy to type in their full query. The autocomplete option bases itself on popularity. So if too many people use the same term it then becomes a default suggestion for the other users.

And now try typing something in Romanagri or Roman Hindi and see the fun... When “Kahan ho tum” becomes “Karen Hi Tug” you know that your phone is censoring you in public interest. Not in your interest to be shown as dignified, erudite, etc. but in public interest to get LO Led , ROF Led, and made fun off in your attempts at communication or should I say miscommunication. Trust me, this attack on spelling is only the basic feature.

From political correctness to auto-sanskari, these smartphones have all the capability to transform one from Tohar Babua to Tom Cruise and sometimes even vice versa!