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Pretty thin soup here. Basically, the argument comes down to grammar and spelling suggestions, and then a couple of other features like document templates. I wo
by karaterobot 3y ago
Pretty thin soup here. Basically, the argument comes down to grammar and spelling suggestions, and then a couple of other features like document templates. I would need stronger evidence to believe that Word's grammar suggestions have empirically affected the language people use—outside Word itself, possibly. It would be much more tenable to say that Word influences how people write Word documents, but they seem to be saying the languages of the world have been influenced in some marked way by it, which I haven't observed. Nor did I observe a lot of evidence in that article, as opposed to speculation.
- kqr 3y agoAs far as myself go, predictive typing systems have a definitive effect on how I write (qualitatively and stylometrically), and this is the reason I avoid them. I want to use the words in my head, not the ones in the machine. At least until recently it's not been up to par.
- satvikpendem 3y agoI use SwiftKey, it is the best one I've found as it will remember the sequence of words previously used, which are common things I often say, so their predictive text is often much better than Google's for example.