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Explain this to me. Do people just not notice that it's autocorrecting while they type? Or is it doing it in the ether, like Yahoo Groups used to do with some word or other?
(I think it was "expression" that got autochanged to "statement". So you would see fics talking about the severe statement on someone's face.)
Well, sometimes you have the word typed mostly correct and then it just suddenly changes it. I guess if you review each post bfore you click send, you would catch it. But when typing on my iPhone, I mostly look at my fingers/keys and not the screen so much.
On a related note, I have to say I'm really impressed with how well the Swype typing works. It's made the pullout keyboard on my phone totally unneeded.
I got the G2, brenda, and Swype is pretty good. I'm faster on the the physical keyboard, though, and I type a lot of words that aren't in the dictionary, so I do usually end up using it.
There's a learning curve, for sure. And it's iffy if you're on the train or something. But it's getting a lot faster for me than the physical, and it seems to learn your words pretty quickly. I type a lot of long work emails, which I why I didn't want to go all touch screen in the first place, but it's working for me.
I'm old-fashioned enough that touch typing is still a thing for me. I like being able to look away from my fingers a little.
Explain this to me. Do people just not notice that it's autocorrecting while they type? Or is it doing it in the ether, like Yahoo Groups used to do with some word or other?
I was wondering that, too, especially in cases where it autocorrected to things totally unrelated alphabetically. (Also, it seems to autocorrect things to "dick" or "penis" a LOT.)
I still haven't figured out how to get the autocorrect to bugger off. I mean, when I actually WANT its correction, I can't get it to select the word and when I don't want it, it does.
I think it only does that for people who use "dick" and "penis" a lot and thus the words are in their dictionaries. I have never had my texts auto complete to either word.
If the autocorrected word is at the end of the text, it's really easy to hit "send" before noticing that anything's wrong. Words in the middle of a sentence are easier to catch.