• Jay (unregistered)

    Maybe their target audience for this email were older people. The ones over 70......

  • Puckdropper (unregistered) in reply to Jay

    Look at everyone here, blaming the tool. I tend to use wordpad or textareas for my writing, so my mistakes are my own, and I stand by them when I can't edit them.

  • (cs)

    "incontinence"?! o.O

    Maybe because he's pi**ed off...

  • Homely Sysadmin (unregistered)

    I once had a boss send out an email to a bunch of people discussing some network issue involving routing the "bigger packets" in some particular way but, well, the b and the n key are right next to each other... The poor guy felt terrible as certain persons who received the email could have been very offended. Fortunately we had a kick-ass team of very cool people and it was all good in da hood.

  • RainyRat (unregistered)

    It's the misspelling of "apologise", right?

  • GJ (unregistered)

    Caught short, so to speak!

  • (cs)

    My favorite is the one described in this correction sent by the head of a university's computer science department:

    Please give my apologies to the Board for the error in my last report. I had written, "There should be a rewording of BSc CS's position .. " My spellchecker challenged "CS's". Unfortunately I clicked 'Replace' rather than 'Skip' without noticing. The default substitute for "CS's" is "Chihuahuas".
    Source (warning: includes bad pun): http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/21.83.html#subj1

    --RA

  • London Geezer (unregistered)

    Hahahahaha! Love it! My colleague did a similar thing and sent it to all the partners in a top London law firm...

    "... the system wasn't designed with poofs in mind, but we will be addnig the export of poofs as an enhancement in the near future."

    Where poofs was pdfs - wicked!

    I was the lead developer at the time, so when some of the partners forwarded it to me complaining I had to gently ask Christian why he called them all poofs! He was as shocked as I was!

    For those in the US - 'poof' is British slang for homo.

    CAPTCHA: Doom - Sorry, I think my chaingun's out of ammo.

  • Glenn (unregistered)

    Today's (Thursday, not May 18th) Dictionary word of the day:

    malapropism: the usually unintentionally humorous misuse of a word, especially by confusion with one of similar sound; also, an example of such misuse.

  • (cs)

    Hm... You know, that recent addition to cell phones, the T9 tapping dictionary stuff??? It "senses" what word you want to type in an SMS message. So typing hello would change from typing

    44 33 555 555 666

    to just typing

    43556

    downside is: for some key combinations, there can be [b]a lot[/a] of words that use the same combination. That's why there usually is a key for cycling thru matching words.

    However, sometimes you forget to cycle and hilarity ensues, especially because the word could differ largely from the intended one, and the "typo" is not so obvious. My personal favorites:

    Intended: Donde andas ahorita? (Where are you now?) Sent: Donde bodas ahorita? (Where weddings now?)

    Intended: Con Ernie (with Ernie) Sent: Amo Ernie (love Ernie)

    ... especially because the second "T9 typo" was sent by a male person. Ow.

  • Frank (unregistered)

    We need not condom those who use spell checkers.

    Frank

  • Strider (unregistered)

    t9 typo

    Intended: My dad would like to see Pink Panther Sent: My dad would like to see pink pannies

    pretty funny...

  • Evilteach (unregistered)

    One of my favorite autocorrections, has to do with the female deer that has a cold, so her nose is leaking....

    My! look at all the doe snot.

    The autocorrect in word turns it into...

    My! look at all the does not.

  • (cs)

    I hate the fact that "go" and "in" have the same T9 keypresses. Same with "he" and "if". For the life of me, I can never remember which one pops up first.

  • JTK (unregistered) in reply to akatherder
    akatherder:
    I hate the fact that "go" and "in" have the same T9 keypresses. Same with "he" and "if". For the life of me, I can never remember which one pops up first.

    I wish they would let you use a custom T9 library. I often text "Home soon" to my wife when I'm leaving work. T9 defaults to "Good room"....

  • d (unregistered)

    um. i just received a VERY simillar two e-mails from my hosting provider about backup system maintenance. i.e. different weekday was shown in content and subject of e-mail, and second one clarified that. it does not have the "incontinence" auto-correct misshap tho...

  • Mercule (unregistered)

    This is Sprint we're talking about. Their website alone could fuel WTF for a year.

  • dnwiebe (unregistered)

    Another problem: commas should be inside the quotes. In other words, instead of

    The second entry for "Sunday", May 18th should be read "Thursday", May 18th.
    it should be
    The second entry for "Sunday," May 18th should be read "Thursday," May 18th.
  • (cs) in reply to dnwiebe
    dnwiebe:
    Another problem: commas should be inside the quotes. In other words, instead of
    The second entry for "Sunday", May 18th should be read "Thursday", May 18th.
    it should be
    The second entry for "Sunday," May 18th should be read "Thursday," May 18th.
    True if you are writing American, but in English they live outside the quotes!
  • infinity306 (unregistered)

    I didn't know that it also mean 1 : inability or failure to restrain sexual appetite

    You know you might love to meet an incontinent person if they were using the first definition.. the second 1 well.. mostly reserved for grandma and such..

  • (cs)

    I think we are about due this one:

    Eye halve a spelling chequer It came with my pea sea It plainly marques four my revue Miss steaks eye kin knot sea. Eye strike a quay and type a word And weight four it two say Weather eye am wrong oar write It shows me strait a weigh. As soon as a mist ache is maid It nose bee fore two long And eye can put the error rite It's rare lea ever wrong. Eye have run this poem threw it I am shore your pleased two no It's letter perfect awl the weigh My chequer tolled me sew.
  • Dave B (unregistered)

    That made me pee.

  • S|i(3_x (unregistered)

    Why did you list the wrong day?! Now I'm uncontrollably urinating! >8^O

  • ex-sprinter (unregistered)

    Hah. I worked at Sprint for 10 years. This is nooooothing. In fact, I'm not even sure this was an autocorrect mistake! :-)

    Some of the things I saw coming from some of the directors in IT were horrific. My favorite? I remember an email sent out from a director in which she was trying to tell us that "if we snooze, we lose". In the email it simply said "snooze loose."

    That was our catchphrase for the next month: "snooze loose."

  • shecky (unregistered)

    Broken printers apparently pose similar risks, as I learned from a recent office email:

    Good Morning!

    I wanted to update you on the printer situation. Cindy and Doug have contacted HP and the printer is out of warranty so Advanced Laser will be out tomorrow to fix. That means that the color printer is down until tomorrow. Sorry for any incontinences that this has caused.

  • (cs) in reply to ex-sprinter
    ex-sprinter:
    That was our catchphrase for the next month: "snooze loose."

    I saw a guy trying to insult somebody on a forum with this gem: "Can you spell looser?"

    Apparently, he couldn't spell "loser"...

  • (cs) in reply to shecky

    well that was interesting

  • Maserati (unregistered) in reply to Dave C.
    Dave C.:
    This is one of several, well maybe dozens, of words that spell check should flag for special handling, e.g, "Auto-correct has replaced this word with the word 'incontinence.' Did you intend to be hilarious?"

    Hmmmm. I see a feature request here for every spellchecker on the market. Of course, someone would have to come up with a schema of all the flags you might want to set on words. Then a lot of people start going through the dictionary.

    That last part would probably get outsourced.

  • Tarwn (unregistered)

    Wieeeeerd. That actually happened to one of our sysadmins. A couple executives actually started cracking on him via email about system "incontinence" :P

  • (cs)

    The truth here is that it's not the "Business Implementation Management" group, but just the "Business Management" group, who's initials are simply BM.

    -- Note, those who haven't worked in the medical field may not get this.

  • (cs) in reply to Mark B
    Mark B:
    Reminds me of some dinner invitations which went out for a company I used to work for.

    "Please note african\american tie required."

    BS

  • (cs) in reply to GettinSadda
    GettinSadda:
    I think we are about due this one:
    Eye halve a spelling chequer It came with my pea sea It plainly marques four my revue Miss steaks eye kin knot sea. Eye strike a quay and type a word And weight four it two say Weather eye am wrong oar write It shows me strait a weigh. As soon as a mist ache is maid It nose bee fore two long And eye can put the error rite It's rare lea ever wrong. Eye have run this poem threw it I am shore your pleased two no It's letter perfect awl the weigh My chequer tolled me sew.

    Eye lie kit.

  • Jim (unregistered)

    I once received an email from one of those spambots that creates a nonsense subject line by randomly combining words from a list. The subject: "rump polish"! I nearly peed my pants trying not to laugh out loud at work. :D

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