Autocorrect is shot
Discussion
Overall autocorrect is a good thing. Having fat fingers and not being a teenager who grew up with mobile phones, I make many typing errors.
However what puzzles and annoys me in equal measures is why autocorrect replaces correct words with alternatives.
I know the difference between “were” and “we’re” and when I type the former I don’t mean the latter. Similarly when I write someone is “ill” I don’t mean “I’ll”. And “had” doesn’t need to be replaced with “has”, unless someone eliminated the pluperfect without telling me.
Any other autocorrects that drive you nuts?
However what puzzles and annoys me in equal measures is why autocorrect replaces correct words with alternatives.
I know the difference between “were” and “we’re” and when I type the former I don’t mean the latter. Similarly when I write someone is “ill” I don’t mean “I’ll”. And “had” doesn’t need to be replaced with “has”, unless someone eliminated the pluperfect without telling me.
Any other autocorrects that drive you nuts?
Eye halve a spelling chequer
It came with my pea sea
It plainly marques four my revue
Miss steaks eye kin knot sea.
Eye strike a quay and type a word
And weight four it two say
Weather eye am wrong oar write
It shows me strait a weigh.
As soon as a mist ache is maid
It nose bee fore two long
An it then puts the error rite
It's rare lea ever wrong.
Eye have run this poem threw it
I am shore your pleased two no
It's letter perfect awl the weigh
My chequer tolled me sew.
It came with my pea sea
It plainly marques four my revue
Miss steaks eye kin knot sea.
Eye strike a quay and type a word
And weight four it two say
Weather eye am wrong oar write
It shows me strait a weigh.
As soon as a mist ache is maid
It nose bee fore two long
An it then puts the error rite
It's rare lea ever wrong.
Eye have run this poem threw it
I am shore your pleased two no
It's letter perfect awl the weigh
My chequer tolled me sew.
My relationship with autocorrect is now at a point where it assumes my 'so' is 'do', this is thus; come is cone love is live.
If I happen to write a sentence missing a space, it seems happy for me to carry on until the word looks like it was typed out by an excited dog's wagging tail.
If I happen to write a sentence missing a space, it seems happy for me to carry on until the word looks like it was typed out by an excited dog's wagging tail.
Edited by Glassman on Monday 21st March 08:44
My phone has a couple of annoying habits. 'Remembered' will often change to 'engendered', a word I dont recall ever using myself. Also punctuation. Commas will frequently be exchanged full stops, and trying to put things in quotes regularly needs me so go back and re-correct it.
Unfortunately I've not found a way to remove words from the suggested list.
Auto correct can be manipulated for commedic effect. Back at school, one of the computers was set to change 'Dear Sir' to 'Hello Rabbit'
Unfortunately I've not found a way to remove words from the suggested list.
Auto correct can be manipulated for commedic effect. Back at school, one of the computers was set to change 'Dear Sir' to 'Hello Rabbit'
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