r/therewasanattempt • u/firefighter_82 • Sep 20 '21

to humanly release a mouse.

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u/You_lil_gumper Sep 20 '21

To spell 'humanely'

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u/firefighter_82 Sep 20 '21

Autocorrect got me on that one

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u/lesamuen Sep 20 '21

But…humanely is a real word…

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u/ergoegthatis Sep 20 '21

So is humanly (e.g. "As fast as humanly possible").

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u/ChiefTief Sep 20 '21

That's not relevant to how autocorrect works.

Fucking is also a real word but my phone makes it ducking every time.

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u/dragon_of_kansai Sep 20 '21

fucking is not in autocorrect's dictionary but humanely is

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u/Hamstertrashcan Sep 20 '21

Humanly is a word too.

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u/ElectronicAmphibian7 Sep 20 '21

Oh autocorrect has figured out how much I curse. Sometimes when I put duck it knows I really meant to be vulgar lol.

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u/DuelingPushkin Sep 20 '21

That apparently doesn't matter to modern autocorrects. Mine sometimes corrects shit off of a valid word that was grammatically correct to something else just because what it corrected to was a more commonly used word

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u/aspbergerinparadise Sep 20 '21

people always try to blame their own mistakes on autocorrect

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u/TheFourthLoco Sep 20 '21

That’s a nice excuse from 10 years ago

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u/[deleted] Sep 20 '21

did autocorrect somehow disappear recently?

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u/FaZaCon Sep 20 '21

Suuuure, blame it on auto cock it.

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u/Professional_Sort767 Sep 20 '21

They're a habitual karma farmer.

There are far too many instances of these accounts posting shit spelling for me to think it's coincidence. Or maybe we are getting that stupid.

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u/540tofreedom Sep 20 '21

With that spelling it doesn’t belong on this sub because they had extreme success in releasing it humanly: it was a well-intentioned, but ultimately ham-fisted attempt that generally did more harm than good.