A grab bag of fun links about auto-suggest/auto-complete/spell check/predictive text. Send me more! 1. “President Abraham Lincoln was buttbuttinated by an armed buttailant after a life devoted to the reform of the US consbreastution.”http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/2667634/The-Clbuttic-Mistake-When-obscenity-filters-go-wrong.html …
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2. The heartbreaking hilarity of
@GooglePoetics: http://www.googlepoetics.com/ pic.twitter.com/8nT6uotqj1
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3. “Bill Vaginal wasn’t the only complainant: As Thorpe recalls, Goldman Sachs was mad that Word was always turning it into Goddamn Sachs.” The Fasinatng... Fascinating History of Autocorrect:https://www.wired.com/2014/07/history-of-autocorrect/ …
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4. A 2011 interview with
@jonwiley on being a Google Autocompleter. “On a good day, I average 34,000 words per minute. And I go through a new keyboard every eight days.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=blB_X38YSxQ …2 replies 0 retweets 9 likesShow this thread -
5. History of the predictive text swearing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hcoT6yxFoU …
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(A skit apparently much more grounded in reality than you might assume: https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=chubi&defid=1907493 …)
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6. Words censored on various forums because of uncouth words hiding within: assassin cockpit canal screwdriver Saturday hearse basement farther skyscraper grapefruit manuscript William Shatner Bumblebee Riddick cluster Lightwater Town circumvent suspicious reputation Japan
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No worries! I would have put it inside, but I was bouncing off of the 280-character limit.
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