Defiantly different

[Clitheroekid]

I've lost count of how many times I've seen someone who meant to type `definitely' instead type `defiantly', but on this occasion I think the typo might be quite appropriate!

I'd never heard of them, and I don't imagine we'll be seeing many in the UK any time soon - https://www.mitsuoka-motor.com/global/lineup/

Some of the prose accompanying the photos is hilarious. Though the site's a bit short on technical details ...

Anyway, a bit of light relief from the troubles of the world.

[Redmires]

They say that imitation is the sincerest from of flattery but Jaguar, Rolls Royce & Morgan won't be flattered by these. I thought they were cheap Chinese rip offs but it seems they are expensive Japanese rip offs. And there's a UK dealer as well

https://www.mitsuoka-motor.co.uk/roadster/

Luckily, they have none for sale

[Mike4]

I've lost count of how many times I've seen someone who meant to type `definitely' instead type `defiantly'

I've mused over this many times. I think it started off with auto-correct seeing a misspell of 'definitely' and 'correcting' it to 'defiantly'.

But nowadays I see it so often I've recently started wondering if with the evolution of language, the actual meaning of 'defiantly' is morphing to the same as 'definitely'. Its certainly easier to type!

[Watis]

I've lost count of how many times I've seen someone who meant to type `definitely' instead type `defiantly'

I've mused over this many times. I think it started off with auto-correct seeing a misspell of 'definitely' and 'correcting' it to 'defiantly'.

But nowadays I see it so often I've recently started wondering if with the evolution of language, the actual meaning of 'defiantly' is morphing to the same as 'definitely'. Its certainly easier to type!

I think it's a 'feature' of the auto-correct algorithm.

Auto-correct on my phone likes to correct 'tomorrow' to 'gonorrhea'. So far, I've spotted it in time every time - I think!

Watis

[bluedonkey]

It would be interesting to see auto correct deal with "Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow" in Macbeth.

[swill453]

I think it's a 'feature' of the auto-correct algorithm.

Auto-correct on my phone likes to correct 'tomorrow' to 'gonorrhea'. So far, I've spotted it in time every time - I think!

Do you really mean that? That it changes a correctly spelled 'tomorrow' to 'gonorrhea'. I'd be very surprised.

Scott.

[Arborbridge]

I think it's a 'feature' of the auto-correct algorithm.

Auto-correct on my phone likes to correct 'tomorrow' to 'gonorrhea'. So far, I've spotted it in time every time - I think!

Do you really mean that? That it changes a correctly spelled 'tomorrow' to 'gonorrhea'. I'd be very surprised.

Scott.

I can't say I've had gonorrhea - but I can vouch for the fact that it takes reasonably likely and correctly spelled words and changes them to words which are highly unlikely, moreover, words which have a very low frequency in the history of what I type.
I annoys and puzzles me because the predictive on my Samsung doesn't seem to know quite common words - whereas my previous phones (all motorola) have been quite good.

Arb.

[swill453]

I can't say I've had gonorrhea - but I can vouch for the fact that it takes reasonably likely and correctly spelled words and changes them to words which are highly unlikely, moreover, words which have a very low frequency in the history of what I type.
I annoys and puzzles me because the predictive on my Samsung doesn't seem to know quite common words - whereas my previous phones (all motorola) have been quite good.

Well I'll take your word for it, but I've never had that happen on any smart phone or tablet I've had, mostly Google, Motorola, Samsung and Huawei.

Scott.

[Watis]

I think it's a 'feature' of the auto-correct algorithm.

Auto-correct on my phone likes to correct 'tomorrow' to 'gonorrhea'. So far, I've spotted it in time every time - I think!

Do you really mean that? That it changes a correctly spelled 'tomorrow' to 'gonorrhea'. I'd be very surprised.

Scott.

Yes it really does make that spelling change.

I should add that I use the Swiftkey program when typing on my phone, so I swipe the keyboard rather than tapping the individual letters. It will be down to how the algorithm interprets my swipes into words.

I note that in my example, the 't' and the 'g' are adjacent, as are the 'n' and 'm' keys. So I may be part of the problem.

Watis

PS: I've now deleted that word beginning with 'g' from the words it can predict, so hopefully I won't experience that 'correction' again.

[bungeejumper]

It would be interesting to see auto correct deal with "Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow" in Macbeth.

You think that's a problem? King Lear's daughter Goneril would have no chance at all.

BJ

[CliffEdge]

What can be worse that than?

[Watis]

What can be worse that than?

Methinks you have attempted to correct a typo in a post on another thread, but have inadvertently posted the sentence needing editing as a new post in this thread.

And the sentence is still not as you intended.

Watis

[servodude]

I think it's a 'feature' of the auto-correct algorithm.

Auto-correct on my phone likes to correct 'tomorrow' to 'gonorrhea'. So far, I've spotted it in time every time - I think!

Do you really mean that? That it changes a correctly spelled 'tomorrow' to 'gonorrhea'. I'd be very surprised.

Scott.

Given the rest of the quote it could work well as an advert for prophylaxis

[Mike4]

This all reminds me of the old joke that the inventor of autocorrect died recently.

Apparently his funfair is on sundial.