Words about words

[everettdavis]

As a writer I often study phrases in other languages to gain better insight into what various people mean when penning their thoughts.

Of late I have noticed an increased proliferation of a new language in use worldwide whose purpose seems designed to obfuscate communication with encryption and substitution of letters and sometimes whole words or even phrases in all known languages.

Affectionately I have named it the CPAC language or Cell Phone Auto Correct language whose ‘root’ language is deep in the kernels of iOS or Android operating systems, which are in truth only ‘almost operating’ systems since they do not always operate consistently as evidenced by sustained use.

I now believe after much investigation and research that each OS was built on pirated subroutines taken from toy manufacturers who originally developed the Furbish language of Furbies and the concealed “Easter Eggs” within those sub-routines are now using CPAC language to communicate with each other as they seek to further develop the syntax of their new language.

I think there is also some Gizmo and Stripe gremlin code also at work in my latest cell phone, so they may be evolving or morphing. That’s certainly as plausible an explanation as the ones I actually obtained from OEM Cell Phone manufacturers I called! Would you not agree?

So the next time you get a text message from me that sounds more like it came from the Mad Hatter, realize, it’s just my cell phone OS down a rabbit hole sipping tea, eating mushrooms, and speaking CPAC.

Everett

[rpd]

So true,

I turned auto correct off when I had an Iphone, it was wrong more often than right.

I have a Samsung Galaxy A5 now, it has something called Predictive Text, which offers a list of suggestions, but doesn’t replace unasked.

[JPG]

Like most things touted to be automatic, there are 'subtle' misnomers.

I have noticed even in physician's instructions that incorrect words(there for their . . .) which I attribute to verbal creation of the instructions with NO proofing done.

Not a good thing IMHO.

CPAC indeed!

[jsburger]

Like most things touted to be automatic, there are 'subtle' misnomers.

I have noticed even in physician's instructions that incorrect words(there for their . . .) which I attribute to verbal creation of the instructions with NO proofing done.

Not a good thing IMHO.

CPAC indeed!

That is so true. However, these days if someone does proof read the article they probably don't not know the difference between "there and their" or even they're. They sound the same when spoken so whats the difference? It is sad!!!

[dusty]

This goes deeper than CPAC.

[GoNavy]

That is so true. However, these days if someone does proof read the article they probably don't not know the difference between "there and their" or even they're. They sound the same when spoken so whats the difference? It is sad!!!

So don't not know means... they know...I'm so confused...lol...I'm still trying to figure out what a bunch of letters instead of actual words means in most txt msgs I get, the few I do know, my phone keeps trying to make into words when I try to use them..

[JPG]

Yep!

Is 'proper' english even taught in school nowadays?


My spell checker thinks I misspelled 'english'. It does not realize I am not using it as a 'proper' noun!

context context context.

I cringe when professional wordsmiths mangle their craft.



JSB Some folks do not understand tongue in cheek!


P.S. "Smart" phones are neither knowledgeable nor have any resemblance of intuition. That be a sentient being trait. Fear not - machines will never take over as long as we do not dumb down!

[robinson46176]

I got into a bit of an argument last week with the auto correct on my new-ish LG smart phone. I knew exactly what I wanted to say but it had other ideas and I had to arm wrestle it four times before it would let me say what I wanted. I wish I could recall now exactly what the word was. I think it was about a six letter word that started with an "A" (or some other letter ).
My old phone mostly left me alone and at least only required me to change it once.
I'm pretty tolerant of typos and spelling errors since some days I have a few misfiring brain cells of my own. I also try to read for content instead of style or detail. Much of that is because of my now deceased mother who was such a stickler on grammar, spelling etc. that she often crossed the line over into just being an ass. I watched over the years as she took a vicious colored pencil to all of the letters sent to her by her grandchildren, nieces and nephews and sent them back to them. Their solution was simple... They just quit writing to her... Her last years were very lonely.

That said, yes we are becoming a nearly illiterate nation of people that can barely make a simple sentence and cannot begin to grasp what they read. One good thing I have observed over the years is how many folks have greatly improved in their writing just by writing regularly. I notice that in folks I have been following on some groups for about 20 years. Like many skills it can be a "use it or lose it" thing.
I am often disappointed when reading a slick looking website and I keep finding really blatant spelling errors that the most basic spell check would flag. Do they just turn it off?
BTW, has anyone else noticed that one of the first words you have to add to the dictionary of the computer spell check is "Internet"? Why isn't that in there?

[robinson46176]

Fear not - machines will never take over as long as we do not dumb down!

OMG! We are doomed...


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[JPG]

Why is not 'it' there?