This is the post for the February 23, 2015 class meeting.

My most recent encounter with an autocorrect mishap happened this morning, actually. Last night, while watching the Oscars, I was SO excited when Lady Gaga and Julie Andrews hugged onstage after Gaga’s amazing tribute to The Sound of Music. I was live tweeting up a storm. One of my tweets (sent from my iphone) was as follows:

This morning, I was texting with my mom about the show in a more levelheaded manner. I was trying to say “Lady Gaga and Julie Andrews hugged,” but my phone autocorrected the name to “GAGA” in all caps, because it had learned that from my tweet. I saw it in time to change it, but I still had to take time to do that.

Autocorrect is a valuable tool, making typing faster and more efficient in many cases; however, it can be slightly cumbersome when it predicts incorrectly and forces you to go all the way back through and make your own edits by hand.