Story idea: miscommunication by auto-corrected text message

Probably not a whole story, but a premise to setup conflict or a funny situation:

  1. One sender of message; one or more receivers of message
  2. Sender is rushed, only causually confirms what typed is what’s intended
  3. a simple example: “Hey just saw->sex  u budd John”  where “saw” was intended but autocorrect changed to “sex”.
  4. Receiver gets the “sex” version
  5. This miscommunication can lead to conflict

This sort of thing is probably a trope; miscommunication.

One weird thing is the sender can’t point to their phone and say “but I really typed “saw”, since you don’t see what autocorrect did.

But maybe you should be able to see, perhaps in the details; have your history show something like “saw->sex” or somesuch.

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