When you are quite aware of the sure fire topics to reduce a forum/Reddit thread to ashes (or get it locked):
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When you immediately write off the online opinion of anyone who writes “grammer”.
Do they have spell check turned off or are they overriding it?
Similarly “would of, should of, could of”
Hell, autocorrect just fixed that for me - I had to override it. That must have come with the latest iOS update.
Apple is doing the work of the gods.
Do they have spell check turned off or are they overriding it?
Similarly “would of, should of, could of”
Hell, autocorrect just fixed that for me - I had to override it. That must have come with the latest iOS update.
Apple is doing the work of the gods.
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When there is occasionally just as much fighting between members of your language forum as there is between members of the hockey forum you also participate in, but you don’t mind because unlike the hockey forum kids, at least members of the language forum tend to still have their front teeth.
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What advice do you give to people IRL when language learning comes up?
Learn to play pickleball instead.
Learn to play pickleball instead.
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...when you're asked to take an online survey, one of the questions is asked in ungrammatical Swedish (to the level that makes your blood boil), and you do your best to write a polite email suggesting that they let someone proofread it before making it public.
(You know you've made your point when you get a polite reply saying that they corrected their mistake, and hope that I'm no longer in shock. )
(You know you've made your point when you get a polite reply saying that they corrected their mistake, and hope that I'm no longer in shock. )
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On the other hand, my autocorrect sometimes changes a correct "its" into an incorrect "it's" (this is Android not Apple though) and in the last decade or so I've not seen fewer mistakes in the wild, but just differerent ones, usually incorrect words rather than incorrect spelling. A favourite that I sometimes see at work is "encase", from people who think that "in case" is a single word, and it also seems to be much more common than before to confuse near-but-not-quite-homophones like than/then, were/where, and lose/loose, which are very confusing for the reader but I know that it is the kind of thing that dyslexics struggle with so I sometimes give the benefit of the doubt.Adrianslont wrote:Hell, autocorrect just fixed that for me - I had to override it. That must have come with the latest iOS update.
Apple is doing the work of the gods.
As for me, I use Firefox on my laptop and I've never figured out how to get the spell checker to actually work (and I'm an experienced professional programmer...) so that's my excuse
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garyb wrote:On the other hand, my autocorrect sometimes changes a correct "its" into an incorrect "it's" (this is Android not Apple though) and in the last decade or so I've not seen fewer mistakes in the wild, but just differerent ones, usually incorrect words rather than incorrect spelling. A favourite that I sometimes see at work is "encase", from people who think that "in case" is a single word, and it also seems to be much more common than before to confuse near-but-not-quite-homophones like than/then and were/where, the latter one being particularly confusing for the reader but I know that it is the kind of thing that dyslexics struggle with so I sometimes give the benefit of the doubt.Adrianslont wrote:Hell, autocorrect just fixed that for me - I had to override it. That must have come with the latest iOS update.
Apple is doing the work of the gods.
As for me, I use Firefox on my laptop and I've never figured out how to get the spell checker to actually work (and I'm an experienced professional programmer...) so that's my excuse
Use the Grammar & Spell Checker—LanguageTool addon. It is opensource and very good. Doesn't multiple languages too.
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garyb wrote:On the other hand, my autocorrect sometimes changes a correct "its" into an incorrect "it's" (this is Android not Apple though)Adrianslont wrote:Apple is doing the work of the gods.
Apple you've got a 50-50 chance of it picking the right one.
Well, I say 50-50, but if I swipe for either of them, I actually get "is" as often as not...
(NB. I might be thinking of Apple keyboards here, or the Microsoft keyboard I installed a while ago on the grounds it lets me set up a multilanguage keyboard for codeswitching between Gaelic and English. Can't really be sure...)
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When you have killed the spelling checker because it couldn't cope with mixed languages - not only the annoying thing that changes your words without asking, but also the one that (often wrongly) suggests that you can't spell. Before I did this everything I wrote in English was disfigured by red wawy lines below the words, and these days I write more in English than in Danish.
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