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On paper, autocorrect is awesome. When you send someone a text, it checks your writing and gets rid of all the spelling mistakes. But in reality... It's even better. You see, autocorrect has a good sense of humor—sometimes it makes random edits that completely change the meaning of a word or phrase you were going for. That way, a 'daughter' can become a 'disaster' and 'chivalry' can turn into 'chocolate'. And these "jokes" are even better if you notice them only after you hit "Send".

Below, Bored Panda has compiled a bunch of tweets about some of the worst autocorrect fails that are simply funny as duck. Enjoy!

The inventor on the patent for autocorrect and the closest thing it has to an individual creator is Dean Hachamovitch. And you could say it all started in the early '90s when Hachamovitch first joined Microsoft. He was given a job on the Word team and back then, word processing was at a crossroads: on one side were the people who wanted adornments and frills—improved desktop publishing, color separation, and things like that. On the other side was the functionality gang, where Hachamovitch found his place.

These guys really wanted to help people get out of their own way. As Hachamovitch saw it, the main thing that people do on a word processor is type, and typing, according to him, is a matter of "a little bit of creativity and a whole lot of scutwork." Hachamovitch thought he could improve the typing experience by delivering us from scut. He set out to make our typing sleek and invisible, smooth as speaking from a teleprompter.

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As WIRED pointed out, the notion of autocorrect was born when Hachamovitch began thinking about a functionality that already existed in Word. Thanks to Charles Simonyi, the longtime Microsoft executive who is widely recognized as the father of graphical word processing, Word had a "glossary" that could be used as a sort of auto-expander.

It allowed to set up a string of words—like insert logo—which, when typed and followed by a press of the F3 button, would get replaced by a JPEG of your company's logo. Neat. But Hachamovitch realized that this glossary could be used far more aggressively to correct common mistakes. He put together a bit of code that would allow you to press the left arrow and F3 at any time and immediately replace teh with the. His eureka moment came when he understood that because English words are space-delimited, the space bar itself could generate the replacement, making the correction automatic. Hachamovitch then compiled a list of common errors, and his team got to work. One Microsoft manager even dubbed them the Department of Stupid PC Tricks.

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Pretty soon, the team realized that autocorrect could also be used in less productive but far more entertaining tasks. One day, for example, Hachamovitch went into his boss' machine and changed the autocorrect dictionary so that any time he typed Dean, it was automatically changed to the name of his coworker Mike, and vice versa (his boss kept both his computer and office locked after that). Children were quick to pick this up too—after Hachamovitch went to speak to his daughter's third-grade class, he started receiving emails from the kids' parents, saying something along the lines of "Thank you for coming to talk to my daughter's class, but whenever I try to type her name, I find it automatically transforms itself into 'The pretty princess.'"

So now that you know the origins of autocorrect, do you really think all these hippos, I mean, hiccups on the list are accidental?

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Autocorrect is just waiting for it's chance to autocorrect it to "exaggerate "

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

and then your phone and all the furniture in your house doubled over laughing

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

*a few minutes of exercising tongue* "TIME TO LICK YOU OUT JESS" *big lick* *jess gets licked to another continent*

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I would have preferred it to be signed off with a mildly threatening 'soon'

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Raine Soo
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I apologise for laughing much too hard at this one. Poor Donna.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Hmmm, perhaps when a group of people are all in danger from a low flying object, and they all duck at the same time, they perform a group...(cluster)...duck...? I tried 😁

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Sounds like a good new slang word. "I'm not angry at all...feeling totally chowder."

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

How did you know that's what I wanted to say, autocorrect?

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

... *pats down mound of earth* "Auto-correct won't be saying anything soon...

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

LOL As an aside, Michael Fassbender was nicknamed Michael Fatbender when he was a young teenager. He confirmed it in an interview when he was pitching one of the X-Men movies with James McAvoy. James broke down in peals of laughter.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Ooooooooh so there is a tennis player with that last name. 😂 Now it would be weird if your autocorrect started picking Finnish words spontaneously.

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11 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Complaining is better than solving the problem you are company paining about

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

You can actually change that in keyboard shortcuts... I think...

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I have to upvote this purely because I live in Spokane County. I couldn't care less about sports.

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