It’s not often I have to hold my legs together to contain myself laughing at some language goof or other. Usually it’s just a know-it-all smile or a forced chuckle. But “The 30 Most Hilarious Autocorrect Struggles Ever” had me weeping with giggles. At the risk of ruining the humor by dissecting it, I’m going to speculate on why.
It’s not the occasionally sexual or scatological results of the autocorrections. (Most of those are not printable in this blog, so you’ll have to click the link.) When you grow up with a brother and then have two sons, you tire of potty humor pretty quickly. And like most of my female friends, I’m an eye-roller when it comes to jokes about sexual organs.
For a while, I thought the humor resided in the effect of what’s known as coprolalia, the involuntary uttering of socially inappropriate words or phrases that we simplistically associate…