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0 pointshinkley2y ago0 comments

The internet has turned into a game of “is it him or is it autocorrect?”

I can’t count how many times I’ve looked up at a line of text to spot check it, type in a couple more letters, hit save without looking, and find later that I sound like I’m having a stroke. Never mind the times I’ve simply forgotten to look. Yes that’s a word, stop trying to replace it.

(Five minutes ago I had to type “laissez-faire” three times. Yesterday it turned “understanding” into god knows what. And if iOS doesn’t stop adding apostrophes to “its” I’m gonna fuckin lose my shit)

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burnished2y ago

I ended up turning auto correct off due to iOS being more aggressive with its corrections than my previous android phones (both of which frequently fail to recognize common words, and maybe both but certainly the android was absurdly brand aware).

hinkleyOP2y ago

> brand aware

I got so tired of Mathematica italicizing its own name when I was in college so I figured out how to type it in two phases so it wouldn’t. It was my tiny little petty victory over Stephen Wolfram ruining math for me.

I know that struggle.

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