What do you do when you get a random text from a friend that consists solely of the word “Moppets?”
If you’re me you respond with another single word, “Really?”
And then, no response…
I’m guessing this was just an instance of auto-correct doing it’s damnable best to make sense of our human language and failing miserably. (Link is highly NSFW but hilarious.)
I’m seriously convinced that auto-correct (which I do not have on my cell phone) has either been created as a way to teach computers AI, or it has been programmed deliberately to send the most random or embarrassing correction whenever we mis-spell something.
Auto-correct: Teaching proper spelling one embarrassing auto-correct at a time.
This still doesn’t solve the Moppets question. Supposedly auto-correct is designed to auto-complete what you type with a word that you use frequently that begins with the letters in question. Who the heck says Moppets that frequently and why? I’m seriously questioning the sanity of my dear friend. What could he possibly have been trying to say to me that would result in Moppets?
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Addition: Turns out he was trying to type “Noppers,” and apparently has never called anyone a moppet ever.
Auto-correct: Taking over the world one anochronistic word at a time.
Theoretical Drama 