Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for December 10, 2015

Not far from the truth, I’d bet.

He seems like a real basset hounds are nice dogs.

And this kiddies is why there shouldn’t be an autocorrect feature. A spell check feature that asks if you got the word wrong and do you want to correct it, yes, but autocorrect, no.

Autocorrect gives you things like:Mom: Honey, we have you Dad tested and he is now dead.Daughter: What?Mom: I mean dead.Daughter: Oh No, what happened?Mom: Deaf. Damn autocorrect.

It would be nice if we could be left to our own devices manipulating electronics instead of vice versa. Hear that Microsoft? And Apple? And others?

The programmers grammar could use correcting, too.

Autocorrect. One more example of technology gone wild.

Beware, the frustrated programmer turned hactivist!And always TURN OFF auto-correct!

Does “Brian” autocorrect to “Brain”?

Ducking autocucumber!

He cast a spell on me.

I’m a programmer. We DO get our joys. Beware: we have odd sense of humor.

I like to call them Auto-co-wrecks.

I needed Phyllo dough and it autocorrects to Phyllis on my phone’s shopping list. Didn’t notice and was confused for a bit in the store:)

no matter what i do, the one thing i cannot leave lower case is the f in Facebook. case in point. that wasn’t me capitalizing. you can leave any other company without a capital letter. they may actually be taking over the world

You believe Orwell was 100 years early? I’m thinking it was more like 25 or 30.

Autocorrect has been off on my smart phone for a long time. I don’t think I ever sent anything embarrassing, but I wasted too much time going over my messages correcting autocorrect. So much easier to spend that time giving a message a second look. Of course, it helps if you can spell to begin with. :)

In the last panel, why “also” instead of “too”? The word choice strikes me as awkward. Deliberately so. Nor is there a need for a comma in that sentence…at least not as it is currently worded. So i’m thinking another word got autoccorrected to “also”. And if the original intended word is the one that i suspect it is, then the autocorrection happily makes the strip more newspaper-friendly.

Yeah, I use spell-check, but not auto-correct.

Notice that the slogan shouted so frequently now should be “too or also” not the word “to”: all lives matter; otherwise, one is actually saying that their live (autocorrect for “life”) matters more than the life of another. Just saying that maybe we should read what we rite (autocorrect for “write”) before we hit send. It is like the tail wagging he (autocorrect for “the”) dog. When one paw has a thorn in it, the whole dog hurts. Do not make it about the thorn (injustice), make it about the dog (society being diminished). Mob justice is no justice. The hate of the mob distracts from the effect of the pain on us all.

It’s their revenge for all the wedgies & swirlies they got in high school!

One way my “Programmer’s Humor” surfaced is contained in the following that I posted in “Betty” on January 12th, 2014: Back in the day when I wrote database systems for departments at my job, one of them asked me to program in a password routine. After I implemented it, they kept calling for me to come over and reset the password because they had forgotten it. Finally, I was so annoyed, I programmed in a “back-door” password, so the next time they called, I said “type this in: I A M A D O O F U S”.

What annoys me is the American Spellcheck on Microsoft Word.

Not all of us are American.

Geez.

As for autocorrect… It can easily be turned off.

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I try to use a site to help with crossword puzzles. Late-week ones. I’m very used to re-typing 3 times before I am able to send the correct word in order to get back possibilities…

“Autocorrect” is “autocorrupt” autocorrected.

iPhone autocorrects “lardass” to “Kardashian”.

Try it.

Autocorrect is the sleepiest thing ever.

Worm, tit comes I venice in vermin froggy. Get it?Wow, this comic is very funnyDid that suck?

Yeah, autocorrect is weird. I once texted my friend about a new sandwich and soap combo at a local restaurant, and how I had gone there and eaten a grilled chess sandwich with chips. I meant there was a new sandwich and soup, and a grilled cheese sandwich.