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> Without it, typing on a smartphone would be exceedingly difficult. I've never understood this argument, and never use autocorrect. The phone has a screen and
by pixelpoet 11mo ago
> Without it, typing on a smartphone would be exceedingly difficult.
I've never understood this argument, and never use autocorrect. The phone has a screen and a delete key, fukkin' use them!
Anyone blaming autocorrect for their errors is just lying to themselves about simply being uninterested in reading what they write. Everyone makes typos, there's no need to be a victim and blame autocorrect for human error, pretending as if they actually do know the difference between there and they're and their when they obviously don't.
The worst part is how everyone gets so insulted when people don't buy their obvious lie. Come on dude, it's all over "you're" writing and it's insulting to me that you think I can't tell the difference between a simple mistake and your not knowing better.
/rant, at no one in particular, but also pretty much 9/10ths of native English speakers on the internet.
- asacrowflies 11mo agoI disagree with this 100% most of the time I see the typo and move on because using my thumbs to delete and break the flow is way too much effort. This message alone had a dozen auto corrects passively because thumbs are bigger than keyboard buttons...... Thumb typing on a slippery glass brick is not pleasant. It's not that hard to understand.
- rcxdude 11mo agoThe density of errors with smartphone keyboards is much higher. I've done this before when my phone's autocorrect seemed to be exceedingly buggy, but it's not a smooth experience at all.
- pixelpoet 11mo agoIf I decide to write messages 1m away from my keyboard using a golf club, the onus is on me to not produce gibberish; I can't suddenly cry that that the computer failed to magically / psychically produce the actual intended text without any extra effort on my part to correct the keystrokes I mashed by accident. I'm the one with the eyeballs and intent, simple as that. > On two occasions I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question. - Charles Babbage
- rcxdude 11mo agoYeah, but you can complain that it kinda sucks as an experience. Autocorrect is generally speaking the better option, and it generally just means a different kind of error is more prevalent. (you seem to be arguing that autocorrect is somehow an option that means that you don't pay attention to what you're typing. This is an orthogonal issue, and you can be lazy and error-ridden with and without autocorrect)
- saulpw 11mo agoElle Cordova - "Autocorrect - we have a live/hate relationship" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NtOgnq8lLtw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NtOgnq8lLtw