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Sometimes I’d type out a correct spelling of a word and it’d correct it to another word that’s totally unrelated to the context of the sentence, like your Quake

Sometimes I’d type out a correct spelling of a word and it’d correct it to another word that’s totally unrelated to the context of the sentence, like your Quake example. Infuriating when in a rush.

robbiep 4y ago
Mine throws in random French words that look like the medical words I was aiming for. Also for a 3 month period it was auto-correcting ’thé’ to ‘teh’ - i had to train it out of it by spending around half an hour just entering and cancelling the auto correct in notepad on both my computer and phone (because they’re linked) Edit… oh dear, it may have discovered another association I don’t want it to have
- atkailash 4y ago
  Ugh this happens to me all the time. Earlier I typed pre-sale and it put pré-salé for some reason, and it’s in English keyboard. Why have separate ones if you’re just gonna mush the auto together anyway?
  - anon_123g987 4y ago
    Your comments are not visible because you were shadowbanned years ago. You should create a new account.
    - ThePowerOfFuet 4y ago
      atkailash's comment is visible to me.
      - anon_123g987 4y ago
        Because I vouched for it. Turn on "showdead" in your settings and look at his profile.
        smcl 4y ago
        I looked through their comment history, I couldn't see anything too controversial around the time this kicked started. Weird, maybe they can ask @dang to see what's up?
adastra22 4y ago
For me it always turns “well” into “we’ll”. I have no idea why. I rarely type in the second person, and grammatically they’re not substitutes. It’s maddening.
- hiharryhere 4y ago
  Yes! This does my head in. The number of times I've sent 'We'll done!'
- widdershins 4y ago
  Yes! And ill to I'll, or the other way around. It's driving me bonkers.
- Normille 4y ago
  For me [on Android, which is just as excerable] it's changing "has" to "had", which it does every fucking time. No matter how many times I change it back. I'll re-read what I've written and find I've been jumping between past and present tense like a grammatical kangaroo. One thing that could vastly improve the suggestions would be to only insert a proper noun if I've first tapped the shift key. Here again, Android has the infuriating habit of suddenly inserting a person, city or country name into the most prosaic of sentences. My other major annoyance with this kind of typing on mobile is that; once the fuckwitted algorithm has made a ridiculously wrong choice, when you spot it a word or two later and go back to correct it, all the corrections offered are variations on the wrong word it chose, rather than alternatives for what could have been chosen initially. And the very nature of typing on mobile means you're looking at the keyboard, not what's appearing on-screen [as people can do, to various degrees, on 'real' keyboards]. So, unless you're looking up at the screen between every single word, to make sure it's correct, a lot of the correcting has to be done belatedly. So the errors tend to pile up.
  - soco 4y ago
    And how come neither Google nor Samsung keyboards capitalize the I? Really folks, you call that ML and also put it in your CV?
hrbf 4y ago
I believe there is (or very much should be) something like a “principle of least surprise” in product design. Delight is great but this is unexpected, annoying behavior. I took from all the comments to experiment with turning off auto-complete. So far its going great. You can still manually select words to substitute or complete but the algorithm won’t change any words by itself.
Normille 4y ago
Swipe-to-type on Yandex keyboard on Android had a similarly infuriating habit of "correcting" my English spelling to American. So I'd swipe c-o-l-o-u-r and it would insert 'color', c-e-n-t-r-e and it would insert 'center', etc. etc. Oh.And this was with my phone set to 'UK English' and Yandex keyboard set to use 'System Language'. If I caught it in time, I could drag the suggested word off the suggestion bar, so it would be removed from future suggestions. But the yanks have mangled the English language so much, it was a Sisyphean task.

robbiep 4y ago

Mine throws in random French words that look like the medical words I was aiming for. Also for a 3 month period it was auto-correcting ’thé’ to ‘teh’ - i had to train it out of it by spending around half an hour just entering and cancelling the auto correct in notepad on both my computer and phone (because they’re linked) Edit… oh dear, it may have discovered another association I don’t want it to have

atkailash 4y ago
Ugh this happens to me all the time. Earlier I typed pre-sale and it put pré-salé for some reason, and it’s in English keyboard. Why have separate ones if you’re just gonna mush the auto together anyway?
- anon_123g987 4y ago
  Your comments are not visible because you were shadowbanned years ago. You should create a new account.
  - ThePowerOfFuet 4y ago
    atkailash's comment is visible to me.
    - anon_123g987 4y ago
      Because I vouched for it. Turn on "showdead" in your settings and look at his profile.
      - smcl 4y ago
        I looked through their comment history, I couldn't see anything too controversial around the time this kicked started. Weird, maybe they can ask @dang to see what's up?

adastra22 4y ago

For me it always turns “well” into “we’ll”. I have no idea why. I rarely type in the second person, and grammatically they’re not substitutes. It’s maddening.

hiharryhere 4y ago
Yes! This does my head in. The number of times I've sent 'We'll done!'
widdershins 4y ago
Yes! And ill to I'll, or the other way around. It's driving me bonkers.
Normille 4y ago
For me [on Android, which is just as excerable] it's changing "has" to "had", which it does every fucking time. No matter how many times I change it back. I'll re-read what I've written and find I've been jumping between past and present tense like a grammatical kangaroo. One thing that could vastly improve the suggestions would be to only insert a proper noun if I've first tapped the shift key. Here again, Android has the infuriating habit of suddenly inserting a person, city or country name into the most prosaic of sentences. My other major annoyance with this kind of typing on mobile is that; once the fuckwitted algorithm has made a ridiculously wrong choice, when you spot it a word or two later and go back to correct it, all the corrections offered are variations on the wrong word it chose, rather than alternatives for what could have been chosen initially. And the very nature of typing on mobile means you're looking at the keyboard, not what's appearing on-screen [as people can do, to various degrees, on 'real' keyboards]. So, unless you're looking up at the screen between every single word, to make sure it's correct, a lot of the correcting has to be done belatedly. So the errors tend to pile up.
- soco 4y ago
  And how come neither Google nor Samsung keyboards capitalize the I? Really folks, you call that ML and also put it in your CV?

hrbf 4y ago

I believe there is (or very much should be) something like a “principle of least surprise” in product design. Delight is great but this is unexpected, annoying behavior. I took from all the comments to experiment with turning off auto-complete. So far its going great. You can still manually select words to substitute or complete but the algorithm won’t change any words by itself.

Normille 4y ago

Swipe-to-type on Yandex keyboard on Android had a similarly infuriating habit of "correcting" my English spelling to American. So I'd swipe c-o-l-o-u-r and it would insert 'color', c-e-n-t-r-e and it would insert 'center', etc. etc. Oh.And this was with my phone set to 'UK English' and Yandex keyboard set to use 'System Language'. If I caught it in time, I could drag the suggested word off the suggestion bar, so it would be removed from future suggestions. But the yanks have mangled the English language so much, it was a Sisyphean task.