Language is a funny thing.
Don’t believe me?
Did you know that “To Guide” translates to “Rectum” in
Latin? I didn’t know either until I was looking for a wanky Latin name for my training
business.
Rectum Consulting; training everyone, one arsehole at a time.
Technology has made language even funnier.
I'm very prone to typing issyoooos.
For example, “doe snot” really doesn’t belong in a letter to
a client. (Depending on the client).
I wasn’t the only one who typed that, because these days
Word helpfully autocorrects this to “does not”.
Thank dog there are no more letters containing this example
of ruminant sinus infection escaping the world of word processing. Not by
accident, anyway.
The lesson? Don’t ever, ever trust your spell checker.
It’ll let you invent a whole new type of superannuation fund,
given half a chance. Just ask a fellow trainer who was victim of this very
behaviour in a PowerPoint slide.
I don’t think I want to know the type of growth Pubic Sector
Funds have had over the last ten years.
Ewww.
Instant messaging brings its own dangers. Like the day I
typed “rubs his hands” because the person I was messaging said they were cold.
Except that the internetz stole the h and cruelly switched
the order of the n and a.
“Rubs his nads” took that relationship to hysterical embarrassment
a WHOLE NEW LEVEL.
Twitter has created some new words of its own.
Ah Twitter. I remember tweeting “I dream of suck a day”.
LeSigh.
Snazbig, which should have been amazing. I think snazbig IS amazing
and have been using it regularly. I encourage you to join me.
It’s also given me words like Fuckpants. That’s an awesome
word. Always to be used as an expletive. Never a noun. Never. Ever. Ewww.
Last but not least is a wonderful example of autocorrect
creating an entirely new direction of conversation THAT MAY CHANGE THE WORLD.
Mrs Woog had written
about how devastated she was that her car was on its last legs. I told her she
would learn to love again, but autocorrect on my phone changed it to learn to
love Shaun again.
This took us on a lovely random wander through how great
Shaun was, and how he would heal Mrs Woog’s emotional wounds. I said that Shaun
should be Prime Minister.
Someone who follows Woogsy then chimed in asking who this Shaun
guy was, and would he be better at it than the current people in charge of the
government?
Thank you, Twitter and bad typing, for giving us the
opportunity to CREATE AN EMOTIONALLY AVAILABLE CAR THAT SHOULD BE PRIME MINISTER.
Fuckpants, I dream of suck a snazbig day!
What funny typos have you seen?
