Ask HN: Has autocorect ever landed in an HR meeting?
We all know the frustration of auto-correct incorrectly guessing what you meant when typing a word that's not in the dictionary. A coworker of mine actually got in hot water after his Android phone auto-corrected "nuget" to the (racial) n-word. I would have thought autocorrecting to THAT word would have been a hard-coded "don't ever do this!" situation, but apparently not.
By demonstrating that the phone misinterpreted a word not in its dictionary and that the context of the conversation was about a .NET application the matter was dismissed but I would have thought certain words wouldn't be suggested unless the user overrode the override to put in the offensive word.
By demonstrating that the phone misinterpreted a word not in its dictionary and that the context of the conversation was about a .NET application the matter was dismissed but I would have thought certain words wouldn't be suggested unless the user overrode the override to put in the offensive word.