I was reminded of this after my phone autocorrected "honestly" into Throckmorton.

ThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.world to Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world – 409 points –

And before anyone complains about the ifunny watermark this picture was taken from Google.

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Extra funny bc of Throckmorton’s sign which is a penis joke in radiology.

What's the deal with phones auto-correcting to unusual proper nouns? Why is that even an option, if it's literally a word I've never typed/swiped?

I blame it on modem algorithms/"ai" crap.

I noticed like 5 years ago that my phone started switching words I use all the time and it just kept getting worse to the point I have to spell out the word crap.

And in the last year or two mine has started to randomly capitalize words that absolutely don't need it.

Clearly from an English textbook. Tis a common name around our way. Just doing a bit of skateboarding before receiving a hamper from a rich land-owning uncle, before setting off to colonise a small country and borrowing some sacred artefacts for a few hundred years.

Hey, waddup big T? Ready to hit them halfpipes?

Pft Throck’s real friends call him The Throckmeister.

The lost brother of Frog, Newt, Snake, and Toad Morton of Redding, 2241.