• Chip_Rat@lemmy.world
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    I (mid 30s woman) am boss and I txtd one of my guys who isn’t around very often (he works a different shift basically, sometimes we overlap, usually we don’t)

    “Hey 60 year old married man when you have a minute. Swing by my office, I’ve got something for you.”

    I had a company gift to give him.

    Auto complete decided the lips emoji was the best ending to my TXT. You know, the sexy red kissy lips.

    I NEVER use that emoji. I never use emojis, when I told this story to other workers who I TXT regularly they were like “you yeah write out jazz hands or *sparkle emoji”

    But my phone knew what that innocent TXT needed. Awkward, potentially work relationship ruining lips.

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      11 hours ago

      This is why I just…hate touch screen keyboards. T9 never made that kind of editorial decision, and a physical QWERTY keyboard with no software correction running at all didn’t either.

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      Different keyboard layouts. The big difference between UK and US layouts tends to be swapping the " and @ symbols, so on a UK keyboard the ! is shift+1 and the " is shift+2.

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      Estonian layout for an example has " on 2 shift + 2 and @ is alt gr + 2. ! Remains on shift + 1

      We don’t use inches much at all though. But I’m sure there are other layouts with " on 2

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    I’m sorry, is this some sort of imperial joke I’m too metric to understand?

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      could have happened on a canadian french qwerty keyboard: ! is shift-1, and " is shift-2

      Picture of a canadian french QWERTY keyboard, centered on the 1 and 2 keys. The 1 key as the exclamation mark above the 1, and the 2 key has the quotation mark above the 2.

      this could have happened on other layouts too, probably

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      UK keyboards have the " and the @ symbols reversed from the US layout.
      And we mix and match our units of measurement. So
      milk = liters.
      Beer = pints.
      Distance = miles (if driving).
      Distance = km if running or cycling.
      Distance = inches if penis

    • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 @pawb.social
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      It may have not been a typo in the sense they hit the wrong key attempting to type an exclamation point, but a Freudian slip of their mind while typing that caused them to type the quotation mark.

      Like if you were to look at Venus and want to say “Venus is bright tonight” but instead say “My penis is pretty big.” It’s a really common mistake.

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      On a German keyboard, I think ! Is Shift-1 and " is Shift-2, but we measure in cm so the message wouldnt make sense

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      Shift-1 is ! Shift-2 is "

      That’s how it is on a standard British QWERTY keyboard.

      ~I’m assuming you’re American given that you can’t comprehend anyone’s technology or way of life being different to yours…~

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        I didn’t know that the gb layout was different, so thanks for the knowledge, but kindly sod off with the smartass remark, thanks love

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          His remark was spot on. You are an arrogant USian assuming everyone around is using the same keyboard layout as you do.

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            Imagine not knowing literally everything about everything. And I’m the arrogant one? Lmfao.

            blocked

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              And I’m the arrogant one?

              Yes, I am glad I cleared it up for you.

              Oh, BTW, you do know that typing word “blocked” doesn’t actually do anything, don’t you?

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        But why would you be hitting enter when you haven’t hit ! yet? That would require you to skip !, to be typing at a high wpm but still be error prone, and for you to make three mistakes in a row and then for you to not immediately edit or delete and retype the message.

        This takes low accuracy (so a typical hunt and peck user), high speed (so a usual touch typer), and a lack of technical knowledge, all rolled up with multiple failures. Nah, this didn’t happen.

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      Depends on their relationship.
      It’d be creepy if they barely knew eachother. But pretty normal for somebody you know and respect.