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Automated transcription - funny!
« on: Tuesday 28 August 18 17:30 BST (UK) »
Sometimes, automated scanning/transcribing produces gibberish - sometimes you get an unexpected treasure.  This has to be one of my favourites (screenshot from FindMyPest)

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Re: Automated transcription - funny!
« Reply #1 on: Tuesday 28 August 18 18:01 BST (UK) »
I've often some good 'uns too, philipsearching.  The other day I saw a death notice - the deceased was the "hothead" of Mrs So-and-so.... instead of husband.

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Re: Automated transcription - funny!
« Reply #2 on: Wednesday 29 August 18 12:46 BST (UK) »
I remember receiving a business letter from abroad, which finished - where one would normally see 'Yours faithfully',  with 'Yours hoping with a wish to fill out'.
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Re: Automated transcription - funny!
« Reply #3 on: Wednesday 29 August 18 19:51 BST (UK) »
Sometimes, automated scanning/transcribing produces gibberish - sometimes you get an unexpected treasure.  This has to be one of my favourites (screenshot from FindMyPest)
He wasn’t Professor Stanley Unwin by any chance was it?
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Re: Automated transcription - funny!
« Reply #4 on: Thursday 30 August 18 12:24 BST (UK) »
I've often some good 'uns too, philipsearching.  The other day I saw a death notice - the deceased was the "hothead" of Mrs So-and-so.... instead of husband.
In today's Brisbane paper, there's a funeral notice for someone who, so says the notice, was the "long husband of...."   
Doesn't say if she also had a short husband  ::)  ::)  ::) ::)

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Re: Automated transcription - funny!
« Reply #5 on: Thursday 30 August 18 12:40 BST (UK) »
https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/102160620
Sometimes it's not the automated thingy at fault but ....

attaching a snip of the flaw...

long husband  find  :D  :D  :D

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Re: Automated transcription - funny!
« Reply #6 on: Thursday 30 August 18 17:33 BST (UK) »
There's another thread somewhere for manual transcription errors (and probably one for odd spellings) which is worth looking at for a good giggle.

Philip

ps - "hothead husband" is brilliant, Billyblue.
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« Reply #7 on: Thursday 30 August 18 19:00 BST (UK) »


ps - "hothead husband" is brilliant, Billyblue.

'Twas me - sillyleg  or rather tillypeg ;)

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« Reply #8 on: Friday 31 August 18 01:53 BST (UK) »


ps - "hothead husband" is brilliant, Billyblue.

'Twas me - sillyleg  or rather tillypeg ;)

Whoops - sorry!  I didn't spot the part was a quote.

Philip
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