The No Correcting Your Typos Day

Sometimes you come up with a stupid idea that you just can’t let go of, like jumping off the roof of your house with an umbrella, or going back in time to 1940, not to kill Hitler, but just shave off Hitler’s mustache while he’s sleeping and then see how that ends up being recorded in history, if at all.

Well, in that vein, I’d like to create a new holiday, except that I’m afraid to really create it, because it would only work if everyone knew about it. It’s No-Correcting-Your-Typos day. This includes not correcting the autocomplete text that phones give you when you’re texting.

You see, I’ve noticed that when I text, especially when using Swype, I compose all sorts of text messages that would be nonsensical if I didn’t notice to correct the mistakes.  For example, for some reason my Android phone, whenever I Swype in “people” seems to think I mean “puerile”, which means “Childishly silly and trivial.” Nevermind that I was never aware of the word before this happened, and only just now finally looked it up to see what it meant–my phone is convinced I want to use this word at least 10 times a day instead of “people”. It seems like there would be some part of the “guessing” algorithm in Swype that determines which word it is more likely that you want to use.

Having such a holiday, when you are not allowed to correct your typos, spelling errors, or autocomplete text, would lead to all sorts of hilarious consequences, I’m sure, which would cause this new holiday to become easily as popular as Talk Like a Pirate Day (sorry, you just missed it in September) or National Cat Day (tomorrow!).

Anyway, next time you’re texting or emailing on your phone,  imagine what such a day would be like if you couldn’t correct anything you were typing, and then spread the word. If we take it far enough maybe we can then petition Congress.