Malapropisms

Problem with spell checkers, is that they do not understand context!
Well illustrated here :

A Little Poem Regarding Computer Spell Checkers...

Eye halve a spelling chequer
It came with my pea sea
It plainly marques four my revue
Miss steaks eye kin knot sea.

Eye strike a key and type a word
And weight four it two say
Weather eye am wrong oar write
It shows me strait a weigh.

As soon as a mist ache is maid
It nose bee fore two long
And eye can put the error rite
Its rare lea ever wrong.

Eye have run this poem threw it
I am shore your pleased two no
Its letter perfect awl the weigh
My chequer tolled me sew.

granjura - I like it! My spell checker thinks it knows better than I do and often changes things which are just as I wanted them.

Why do you have it on, then? Just out of interest.

I remember a film in the 60s - perhaps it was 'Here we Go Round the Mulberry Bush' - anyway, a character asked what a particular cat's name was. The ditsy girl said "Well the lads call it Cooking Fat - or at least, it sounds like that"

Anagram, I can't reply fro Greatnan- but personally I have it on in case I make a typo or minor spelling mistake, as I type fast. But the poem shows perfectly that a spellchecker still requires the user to understand how language is constructed and context.

Exactly!

Yes, I see that, granjura, it's just that it seems to be causing potential embarrassment in the case of text messages, for example, so that the sender has to double-check their message in any case.

I don't do text messages and it really doesn't cause me much trouble - in fact, it can be quite amusing!

A Swiss friend of mine posted a really great cartoon with caption on FB, drawn by a local cartoonist.

A grand-dad and a child about 10, the grand-pa is holding a book opened and the child says 'wow it's like a text message but with all the letters, what is it called?' and grand-pa replies 'it's a book child, a book'.

Nice one, granjura. I wonder how Countdown would sound in textspeak: Consonant, consonant, consonant..........
In fact, of course, we can almost always understand the word in context without any vowels - when I learned Pitman's Shorthand we were soon able to read back our notes without putting in any of them.

Annobel.

Thanks, I did'nt know what a malapropism was until now. I know now I am a malapropismist?. I have no doubt I have done it, said it, wrote it, whatever the correct term should be. How would I know I am a malapropist!.

I think you mean a Mrs Malaprop!

predictive text thinks i am typing my name as jesus

Joan, your Cooking Fat is a Spoonerism! Lovely.

How about the old lady who was ''wriggled'' with arthritis?

arthUritis surely?

Oh gosh, this reminds me of some Australianisms. Filum for film always makes me laugh!

My DDs used to say mecidine and hopsital when they were children.
Many moons ago when I was a teenager, we were decorating my room. My mother asked me a question but I must have prattled on about something else because she said " We're not talking about that, we're disgusting the wardrobe".

Not exactly a malapropism but a lovely moment, last night, DH watching a cycling race on TV. Men on bikes going round and round Woking town centre. (Jess glad he's not a footie fan and putting up with it)
After about an hour the cyclists muscles can be full of lactic acid which really hurts. But this does not excuse the young cyclist, who, being interviewed after he had to drop our early said it was because he was "lactating".
I've heard of them taking hormones, but not those kind of hormones. This was obviously the high point of the programme for me!

One of my aunts was a great one for malapropisms. She was the carer for her eldest sister who was admitted to hospital after falling. The diagnosis, according to my aunt, was a fractured pelmet. On another occasion, also at the hospital, the receptionist in patient transport was looking for a particular person. Ever helpful, my aunt volunteered that she thought he'd gone to the palmistry.

absent