Does autocorrection and predictive text annoy you terribly?
Mountain_Runner
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I can't believe the weirdest words that form when you type in a perfectly normal word and it autocorrects to something stupid. This happens a lot on Ipad especially on facebook. It also annoys me when a full stop is inserted if you accidentally double space.
Only now I typed. Accidentally and when I'd got as far as Accidental it auto corrected to Accident lay by. Its crazy.
Another thing is when you see misspelled word with a redline under it, you click on the word and above is the correct spelling but just as you press it in millisecond it changes to paste and you end up inserting a body of text you copied a week ago or a website address you copied.
Seriously you need to check over carefully as you do not know what embarrassing words have been inserted.
Tbh autocorrection is more trouble than its worth.
Any other weird words you can share?
Only now I typed. Accidentally and when I'd got as far as Accidental it auto corrected to Accident lay by. Its crazy.
Another thing is when you see misspelled word with a redline under it, you click on the word and above is the correct spelling but just as you press it in millisecond it changes to paste and you end up inserting a body of text you copied a week ago or a website address you copied.
Seriously you need to check over carefully as you do not know what embarrassing words have been inserted.
Tbh autocorrection is more trouble than its worth.
Any other weird words you can share?
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My shit typing annoys me more tbh.
My father used to send me texts from holiday that he was watching the sunset sipping wine and it would change to watching the sunset ripping wind
I really don't know why either. Maybe I don't like it trying to help me? Maybe I don't want to know if people have searched for it before?
Don't you get a little excited though when it doesn't have an option so you're the first person to look for that
I use the iPad a lot, and it's not perfect, but I have seen people's kindles do a lot worse.
My phones text auto correct is different again, and different to my last phone.
The PC auto correct is different again.
It's easy to turn it off on a kindle.
The autocorrect isn't the problem it's the fact I always hit full stop instead of space.
Yes, it is very annoying... when other people use it and can't be arsed to read what they just posted to correct their nonsensical autocorrected words. I see several examples of this here on DS every day, grrr.
But I never use it, never use autocomplete, never use spelling checkers and never will use any of them. They may save the writer save time, but this is at the expense of the reader, who has to spend time working out what they hell they are on about. More trouble than they are worth.
Ban them I say!
For example, I didn't notice until I sent it that the phone auto-corrected Mr Shaw as Mr Shawarma. Didn't help that this was in a note of condolence as Mr Shaw had passed away.
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