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No room for auto-correct?
by InCityDreams 4y ago
No room for auto-correct?
- brewdad 4y agoEven so, there are enough ESL readers on here, along with native speakers who may not understand the difference, that it makes sense to point it out once in a while. Otherwise we end up in lose/loose situation where I see more people use it wrongly than correctly.
- mkl 4y agoSeems unlikely, as "wary" appears to be the more common word (71M Google results vs 55M). Maybe some keyboard mistakenly does it though.
- b112 4y agoNot sure why the count is relevant here. Both are valid words.
- mkl 4y agoBut automatically replacing a valid word with a less-common valid word that makes less sense in the context is not something predictive text should do.
- b112 4y agoYou are presuming it was an automatic replacement. Some still type entire words via a thing called a keyboard, on a computer, others manually pick words to finish, from suggestions, not automatically. Beyond that, google searches are not indicative of current usage, in SMS/messages, emails, etc. Google search spans all webpages, and many text pre-web too.
- mkl 4y agoYes, the comment I replied to with the numbers says "No room for auto-correct?". Autocorrect is the topic of this subthread.