My friend and I were talking about this yesterday. He is a terrible speller, and types with fat fingers. It's funny when spell check throws up its hands and says "I have no idea what you're trying to say."

We have a running family joke about MIL's texting. She doesn't proofread, just hits send. Loads of random characters and misspelled words. Sometimes we have no idea what she's talking about.

I'll notice next time I'm invoicing DH's customers. He does home repair, and some of the words for house parts, spell check has no earthly idea.

I hope spell check never becomes completely accurate, or the younger texting generation will lose ALL ability to spell. It's bad enough that they can't write in cursive.

I use "swype" on my texts, and what it comes up with sometimes, totally perplexes and baffles me. YES! I look at the suggestions, because they can be so amusing. Greasy oysters is a good one

I sent a text to a bud suggesting we eat at Panera's...it was auto corrected to pancreas!

When you combine autocorrect with iffy eyesight with tiny devices, odd things happen more often. Might as well laugh!

I received this long, kind of esoteric text from my 7 year old grandson. He doesn't have a phone, but I figured he was watching something on his tablet and decided to text me. It was a bit troubling to me because he's a good communicator and speller, but some of the things he wrote were a bit morose and I got worried about why he was feeling that way. The next day when I saw him, I asked him about it and what was going on when he texted me. "Oh, g'ma, you know those words that pop up when you're writing? I just clicked on those words that came up!" It was pretty funny, when I realized that's what he'd done, written a whole text with autosuggest. Now when he does it (only a couple of times since) I text his parents and tell them he's drunk texting again.