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[+] 46 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)
  • [–] 29 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    If they have their keyboard set to a different language but type in English anyway, then it learns English words exactly how they're spelled. Which means they probably spelled Window with capital W at some point and then it got autocorrected to that exact spelling.

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  • [+] 15 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (5 children)
  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago

    I hate the whole "its" being converted to "it's" no matter what thing, but what I hate more is when I teach the keyboard a word, and it STILL won't let me use it. Taught my keyboard "that'd" and it would autocorrect it to "that's" every time. And unlike other words, if I went back and manually corrected it back, it wouldn't leave it, it'd force it back to "that's" again and refuse to let me change it. Come to think of it, it did that with "it'd" to "it's" too. Eventually I just switched to a different keyboard with much less aggressive autocorrect, since I still need the autocorrect to type with any semblance of speed due to minor coordination issues.

    My old keyboard abruptly started autocorrecting more typos into what I was saying than it corrected toward the end anyway. Probably some shoddy attempt to implement AI auto correction.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    Gboard does a pretty good job at highlighting your errors correctly in context. I'd guess it's iPhone users fucking up grammar that much.

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  • [+] 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child)
  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago*

    Good call! I hadn't thought of that factor; even though my English keyboard does that, too. I can't type random things it didn't know until it was taught like "BLARGH" without it auto-capitalizing the entire thing, like it just did here.

    Which is extra hilarious when it's more nonsense memey things like "SQUART" or "VAGANAINIA" or "PREGANTE" or "DIYUCK" that my friends and I would spam each other with. Looking through the list of words it added to my 'personal dictionary' was hilarious. I struggle to get it to type all that nonsense in lowercase and it tickles me!

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Google's keyboard is the absolute worst for that, tried using it for a bit but I'm back to SwiftKey which isn't absolutely insane (and which has more customization options too)

    I still miss Swype too, and hopefully one of the open source keyboard apps will get good enough to replace all of them soon enough

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