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Oh god no. My keyboard doesn't have autocorrect and therefore doesn't fuck up my messages where I'm correcting the damn phone's keyboard mistakes 25% of the tim

Oh god no. My keyboard doesn't have autocorrect and therefore doesn't fuck up my messages where I'm correcting the damn phone's keyboard mistakes 25% of the time, especially when you're multilingual and have to slip in local language words into a largely English conversation (common situation here in India). I tweeted in jest about this and this is not even hyperbole. This literally happened while trying to swipe on my phone keyboard for "yesterday" - https://twitter.com/madmanweb/status/1513786589230493696 https://twitter.com/madmanweb/status/1513786589230493696 I've been using PC keyboards for 30+ years so it's just faster for me. I use Whatsapp (like most of my country) and prefer to have the desktop client open on my PC so I can type much faster and see everything on a larger screen.

Sohcahtoa82 4y ago
> This literally happened while trying to swipe on my phone keyboard for "yesterday" - https://twitter.com/madmanweb/status/1513786589230493696 https://twitter.com/madmanweb/status/1513786589230493696 I used to frequently type "habe" instead of "have" (since V and B are right next to each other), and autocorrect would change it to "haberdashery" Not sure how that happens.
asddubs 4y ago
i'm bilingual too, i just deactivated autocorrect. it's too frustrating
- seszett 4y ago
  Weird, I use three languages on my phone for typing messages and the autocorrect manages that quite well (to my surprise, at first). Even mixing languages works quite well in my experience. I use "Gboard" which I think is the default keyboard app? simply with all three languages enabled, and I don't switch keyboard (using always the same disposition, the one of my native language which isn't the language I type most on my phone).
  - lupire 4y ago
    If you avoid Google than you don't get access to their teams of ML data analysis.
  - riccardomc 4y ago
    I use three languages as well and GBoard is the only one that works flawlessly. IPhone is unusable in this regard. Switching from one language to the other is just not cutting it. That's simply not how polyglot people communicate.
    - Liquid_Fire 4y ago
      Unfortunately, Gboard doesn't seem to support multiple languages enabled at the same time if they use different scripts - you still have to switch languages. I can kind of understand why, but I don't think it would be impossible to design a way for it to work.
      - vel0city 4y ago
        Can you elaborate on this? I have three languages enabled on Android GBoard and it'll offer up completions and suggestions across all three languages even though I'm usually on English.
        Liquid_Fire 4y ago
        I'm talking about languages using different scripts/alphabet, e.g. Latin, Cyrillic, Greek etc. The feature you are describing ("Multilingual typing") is not supported in that case. So for example, you can enable it for English and Spanish, but not for English and Russian. In fact, it doesn't even seem to be supported for different languages that use Cyrillic.
        vel0city 4y ago
        Ah, yep, all three languages I'm using are latin scripts, that explains it. Thanks!
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Sohcahtoa82 4y ago

> This literally happened while trying to swipe on my phone keyboard for "yesterday" - https://twitter.com/madmanweb/status/1513786589230493696 https://twitter.com/madmanweb/status/1513786589230493696 I used to frequently type "habe" instead of "have" (since V and B are right next to each other), and autocorrect would change it to "haberdashery" Not sure how that happens.

asddubs 4y ago

i'm bilingual too, i just deactivated autocorrect. it's too frustrating

seszett 4y ago
Weird, I use three languages on my phone for typing messages and the autocorrect manages that quite well (to my surprise, at first). Even mixing languages works quite well in my experience. I use "Gboard" which I think is the default keyboard app? simply with all three languages enabled, and I don't switch keyboard (using always the same disposition, the one of my native language which isn't the language I type most on my phone).
- lupire 4y ago
  If you avoid Google than you don't get access to their teams of ML data analysis.
- riccardomc 4y ago
  I use three languages as well and GBoard is the only one that works flawlessly. IPhone is unusable in this regard. Switching from one language to the other is just not cutting it. That's simply not how polyglot people communicate.
  - Liquid_Fire 4y ago
    Unfortunately, Gboard doesn't seem to support multiple languages enabled at the same time if they use different scripts - you still have to switch languages. I can kind of understand why, but I don't think it would be impossible to design a way for it to work.
    - vel0city 4y ago
      Can you elaborate on this? I have three languages enabled on Android GBoard and it'll offer up completions and suggestions across all three languages even though I'm usually on English.
      - Liquid_Fire 4y ago
        I'm talking about languages using different scripts/alphabet, e.g. Latin, Cyrillic, Greek etc. The feature you are describing ("Multilingual typing") is not supported in that case. So for example, you can enable it for English and Spanish, but not for English and Russian. In fact, it doesn't even seem to be supported for different languages that use Cyrillic.
        vel0city 4y ago
        Ah, yep, all three languages I'm using are latin scripts, that explains it. Thanks!

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