Answer #14. Autocorrect

March 30, 2020, Steve's Stay-at-Home Coronavirus Quiz

Mar 31, 2020

SPOILER ALERT

If have not read Quiz #14. Autocorrect just yet, you’re about to read the answer to the “What did NOT happen?” question from that quiz.

Here’s the answer:

What did NOT happen?

A. Very early on in writing this quiz, Will realized that as one of the few people I see everyday, he’d end up as “material” for the quiz. One day, he texted me something which began with “lmao.” I copied it over into the quiz but, thanks to autocorrect, it went out in the quiz as “LMAO”--in all caps. When Will clicked the link and read what I’d written about his text, he told me that he’d deliberately texted “lmao” without the caps because texting in all caps is the online version of yelling at someone;
B. At dinner Sunday night, Will told me that he’d made bread from scratch. He told me, “I kneaded it,” but what I heard was “I needed it”--and I told him “I needed it too.” The bread was delicious;
C. Sunday night, I worked with colleagues on how to handle some grim news having to deal with deaths from coronavirus. Overnight, when I sent out my passdown email to my team, I typed that I’d worked on the coronavirus problem “in consolation” with another colleague. This morning, that colleague pointed out the irony--and unintended accuracy--of that autocorrect;
D. After a morning video conference call, a colleague from England emailed around a picture of the seaside view from outside his home. He said it was from “roast week.” I emailed back that these days, “roast week” sounds a lot more palatable than “last week;”
E. Monday afternoon, I texted Annie in her job as a psychiatric social worker in a NYC hospital. I told her to have faith--faith in Cuom-O, Steve-O and God-O. Autocorrect changed the last one to “Godot.”

I do love Andrew Cuomo, God and myself--but autocorrect did not change my "God-o" text to "Godot." (I'm waiting for that to happen.)

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Here’s the first quiz in the series: Quiz #1. Stella and Social Distancing, March 13, 2020

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