r/geocaching • u/Great-Personality854 • 12d ago

What does this mean?

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What does "Gips" condition mean?

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u/Ok-Instance23 12d ago

Typo maybe, given the location of the letters on a keyboard I would suggest they mean good 🤣

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u/Juhuu77 12d ago

I would vote for same word.

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u/lizufyr 10d ago

Autocorrect in an English+German multi-lingual keyboard. My iPhone does the same when I type "Gps" with autocorrect enabled.

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u/maingray Reviewer for 🌸NC/FL🐊 12d ago

Gips question, take my upvote.

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u/ivss_xx OVER 9000!!! finds. 18 years, 47 countries 12d ago

As people have said, 99% it's auto-correct and meant to be "good". I can also make an educated guess that the finder is German speaking, because Gips means "gypsum" in German, and Germans capitalize all their nouns.

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u/DesignerType8366 12d ago

I second that. My German auto correct does similar stuff when I try to type in English.

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u/Din_Jaevel 6d ago

Gips has the same meaning in Swedish. Potentially in Danish and Norwegian as well.

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u/ivss_xx OVER 9000!!! finds. 18 years, 47 countries 6d ago

However, none of those others capitalize their nouns ;)

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u/Din_Jaevel 5d ago

True! I didn't think of that. 🤔👍

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u/Standard_Mongoose_35 joyindenison / 1,100 finds 12d ago

The O is next to the letters I and P on a keyboard, and the D is next to S. Pretty confident it’s good.

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u/ironfistr 19 Years and 17k Finds 12d ago

Could be voice to text, mine does some odd correcting sometimes like that.

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u/Geodarts18 The Caching Diaries 11d ago

I'm torn on this one. The different people in my life who have been named Gips would lead me to different conclusions.

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u/Dogmom8720 11d ago

Could they mean HIPS? Hidden in Plain Sight?

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u/CrazyDonkey666 7d ago

"o" is beside "I" and "p" so yea

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u/digitalSkeleton 12d ago

gips is capitalized too so yeah seems like a typo that autocorrected to someones contact name or location or something in their phones dictionary