Software providers have developed tools that help us message faster. Auto suggest is the capability of a software to anticipate what word you might be trying to type from the first few letters. Accepting the suggestion saves keystrokes. It also causes some interesting messages.

I thought I’d capture those I encounter occasionally. The first one that happened occurred this week in an email exchange. I sent a message to an associate on my team asking if he would like to invite one of our corporate experts to participate in a customer meeting next week. The exchange went something like this:

Me: Would you like to bring the subject matter expert to our performance review?
Associate: Defiantly!

Obviously the response was meant to be “Definitely!” but the auto suggestion introduced a little humor to the dialogue.

I’ll keep an eye out for these auto suggest slip ups and share them. Feel free to add yours in the comments section below.