Even before getting a cell phone, I'd heard all kinds of horror stories about the odd things auto correct features can insert into messages. I assumed they were exaggerations or extreme examples. But now that I'm experiencing it myself, I am truly amazed at just how bad it is. The suggestions it gives for partially complete words are bizarre. For instance, when I just misspelled "bizarre" as "bizzare," it offered "blizzard" as a suggestion. When I moved on to the next word, it automatically changed it to "biz are." I had to experiment with the spelling on my own to get it right.
But nothing can compare to what I experienced while typing the previous blog entry. I was typing quickly, so I didn't see which keys I actually hit. But when I looked back over the sentence I just typed, in the spot where I was expecting to see the word "and," I instead saw the word "Zhengzhou," a city in Eastern China.
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