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▲ kragen a day ago

I'm guessing that somebody tried to swipe "Halas" or "Hamid" and it came out "Hamas", or "Tibetan obedience" and ended up with "Tibetan independence", which was followed by a visit from the police or being blacklisted from PayPal. Or "I want to question your artsy friend about the gallery" came out as "I want to question your sexuality, friend about the gallery".

There are cases like https://gizmodo.com/a-cellphones-missing-dot-kills-two-peopl... where, in 02008, Ramazan Çalçoban texted his estranged wife in Turkish, "you change the topic every time you run out of arguments", but the lack of the Turkish dotless "i" on his cellphone turned "sıkısınca" into "sikisinca", which looks more like a misspelling of "sikisince". So he ended up texting her, "You change the topic every time they are fucking you."

Long story short, his father-in-law murdered him for thus insulting his daughter's fidelity, following which he murdered the daughter in question, and the father-in-law committed suicide in prison.

So there might be certain words and phrases that it's best for your computers to not send to other people on your behalf unless they're really sure you mean them.

▲rpdillon a day ago | parent | next [-]

I don't think the problem in your example is the way the words were typed.

▲kragen a day ago | parent [-]

Humans gotta hume.

▲mlok 10 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I was guessing that this greylist makes sure that if you type these words, you cannot later say you didn't write that but autocomplete mistakenly did. Law enforcement would be sure you purposefully typed it yourself.

But your guess seems more probable.

▲philipallstar a day ago | parent | prev [-]

It's hilarious that they blame localisation and not Turkish insanity for these deaths.

▲kragen a day ago | parent [-]

Gizmodo's article did suggest banning knives from the homes of stupid people, Turkish or otherwise. Sadly, I don't think this degree of insanity is that unusual anywhere.

▲philipallstar 10 hours ago | parent [-]

That is the joy of migration, but it still has cultural sources.