Thursday, July 03, 2008

The dangers of auto-replace

at 7/03/2008 09:38:00 AM

Quite possibly the funniest thing ever. It appears the American Family Association (who don't be liking those gayers) have been doing some auto-replacing on their AP feed for their OneNewsNow site. One such auto-replace is to change the word "gay" to "homosexual" which is not very effective if you're an athlete called Tyson Gay.


Hat Tip: Croydonian for sending me the link.


 

7 comments:

i spy strangers said...
03-Jul-2008 10:11:00  

Wonderful!

I wonder if they're equally squeamish about predictive texting - which can also cause problems if you don't check it carefully.

ianvisits said...
03-Jul-2008 10:47:00  

They must have a very "interesting" license from AP to edit the stories in this manner, as the standard contract from AP doesn't allow any editing whatsoever.

Henry Crun said...
03-Jul-2008 16:08:00  

Hmmmm, wonder what Julie Andrews would make of it:

I feel pretty
I feel pretty
So pretty and homosexual

Doesn't quite scan does it?

David Boothroyd said...
03-Jul-2008 21:18:00  

There was the occasion when the Guardian reported the election victory of 'Anita Turnoutack' (Anita Pollack).

J said...
04-Jul-2008 04:13:00  

The classic in online content filters is finding a North Lincolnshire town renamed to "S****horpe". Assuming they let you post it at all!


As for predictive text errors: my favourite is what T9 gives you instead of "Smirnoff"...

grumpy grandad said...
04-Jul-2008 11:40:00  

Or, from South Pacific:

Younger than springtime am I. Homosexualer than laughter am I etc..

We can have lots of fun with this one!

Bristol Dirt Bag said...
09-Jul-2008 15:08:00  

Maybe Mr Homosexual should sue.

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