Learn English meaning of ‘autocorrect’

Date: Nov 16 2016

Intro

Autocorrect helps people to spell words correctly on their computers and smartphones. But sometimes, autocorrect is not correct. It might change your words, and you might send an embarrassing message. The message might even be NSFW. This is a big fail! Because of these problems, people joke and call it auto cucumber.

Vocab

auto cucumber expr.

Definition

Example Sorry, that wasn’t the message I typed. The stupid auto cucumber changed it.

NSFW expr.

Definition

Example Make sure you type NSFW in the subject of the email so she doesn’t open it at work.

spell v.

Definition

Example Do you know how to spell supercalifragilisticexpialidocious?

embarrassing adj.

Definition

Example It was so embarrassing when I fell down the stairs in front of my boss.

fail expr.

Definition

Example You told Tina’s mom that you were in love with her, and you thought you were talking to Tina?!?! Total fail!

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Did you ever have an autocorrect fail? Do you think spelling English words is easy or difficult?

Comments

ShiningSun

United Kingdom

Few times, autocorrect had been big embarrassment for me. When I wanted to write something and it turned out something very annoying, something very awkward. I don’t like it. It acts like an autocratic tyrant; so I’ve muted it on my cell.

julito1

Argentina

I am using Grammarly as autocorrect , it is free and it is doing a great job. Each time I make a grammatical or spelling mistake this ” dude ” stops me and let me know about it.

Autocorrect in the smartphones are kind of tricky, We have to be alert and don´t click the send button unless you are sure of the words that you have typed in