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.
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Stephanie - Dec 20, 2010 3:34:05 pm PST #15701 of 25501
Trust my rage
brenda m - Dec 20, 2010 3:38:12 pm PST #15702 of 25501
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
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.
§ ita § - Dec 20, 2010 3:41:38 pm PST #15703 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
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.
brenda m - Dec 20, 2010 3:43:30 pm PST #15704 of 25501
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
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.
§ ita § - Dec 20, 2010 3:45:58 pm PST #15705 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
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.
Steph L. - Dec 20, 2010 5:14:44 pm PST #15706 of 25501
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
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.)
Spidra Webster - Dec 20, 2010 5:21:54 pm PST #15707 of 25501
I wish I could just go somewhere to get flensed but none of the whaling ships near me take Medicare.
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.
le nubian - Dec 20, 2010 5:24:19 pm PST #15708 of 25501
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
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.
Jessica - Dec 20, 2010 6:23:02 pm PST #15709 of 25501
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
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.
beth b - Dec 20, 2010 6:33:04 pm PST #15710 of 25501
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
I type a couple of words that are nonsense words to most people. and it corrects them to real words, which gets funny
and it turned Ikea to okra