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Most annoying auto"correction" your phone does


Mine is that if I type "person" it is changed to "per so." with the period and everything (except all these quotation marks, of course). When the hell did I ever type that? (I typed "per se" once and may have ended a sentence with it, but I wouldn't have hit an o instead of an e)

One thing I don't get (which rarely happens) is when I am entering a misspelling, I see the correct word showing up below and the autocorrect is going to use it, but then rather than replace the word with the recommendation, when I hit the space, it decides that it's keeping the obvious misspelling and adds it to the autocorrect dictionary for no reason. It already knew it was wrong!

Then the worst part... I once did that thing where you see an upcoming "incorrect autocorrection" down in the recommendations, so you put your finger on it, wait a moment, and it gives you the option to remove it from the phone dictionary.

I thought that was great, but it only worked the first time! It has never worked since, and I've tried it many times.

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I disabled autocorrect
It was a useless pest of a function

But i still manage to mis-type stuff constantly and fequently use the edit button

I get really pissed at myself quite often

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I am happy with it most of the time, and I like being able to notice I hit the wrong letter but be fairly confident that it'll be fixed. I do hate it more when trying to do something other than a text, though.

You're dead-on when it comes to MovieChat, for example. Posting on here with my phone is annoying, especially since I might have to type and then re-type a weird movie term or title or a username that autocorrect wants to go to town on. Many times I will just wait until I'm at a computer instead of posting with my phone.

I do need to figure out how to reset or manually edit the dictionary, though.

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Best of luck with your Dictionary

I would add that i tried a silly experiment recently, which involved posting to myself quite frequently in order to see where a thread ends...it appears that they never do

But i did find the 'controls' got very wonky the further i went down the rabbit hole

Up Arrow, post button and scrolling were all very 'sloppy' and often didnt work...
It was quite hard to navigate after a few hundred posts

I was on my phone...not certain if that matters

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I can't even try long response chains on my phone. I have to just speed-scroll past them.

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Yes
Me too...or it all gets kind of hard to navigate, click and manage
A real annoyance!

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"Fequently?" 😮😜

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LOL!!
See what i mean?

I really am the worst typer
Arggh😡

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😄 I couldn't resist shogun!

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I deserved that!
I am just THE worst

But its nice to see you around here again...hang out more
Some fine peeps here if you like goofing around with fun people

I warn you that there is a Canadian Accountant who is just Not to be messed with and some 'dewey' guy who is a giant pain in the neck...other than those two everyone else is pretty swell here

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Thanks shogun. Been reading the boards since the beginning last February but just don't comment much.
I'm well aware of all of the regular posters here such as "dewey!"

If people would post more often at Bates Motel I'd be posting there but it's---"dead!" 🔪🚿

Any Bates Motel fans on this board?!?!?!?!

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I kid...i love dewey and our one and only hownos...
As for Bates i enjoyed it all but have yet to watch the final season...i will correct that soon

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Oh I see you guys go back and forth and have fun with each other. 😄
These boards are entertaining at times!😂

Cool so when you finish it, post at Bates!

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We somehow manage to keep the lights on here!

I shall!
Fingers crossed for Vera Farmiga😳

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Love love love her!!! And I adore Freddie!!

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Yes!!

A wonderful cast and in my humble opinion the story never works without a fine cast

Honestly, a script could be really stupid but if you rounded up the right actors...
Gold!

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Vera and Freddie are incredible together! Nestor (Romero) and Kenny (Caleb) are great too. Max (Dylan) was ok but nowhere near the talent some of the others have.
Strong cast, for sure!

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I disabled it too. I text in more than one language and it doesn't save any time if you have to keep erasing what IT wants to use, not realising I've switched language. :D

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Cool!
I only know English and i seem to be very bad at typing it ha😅

I admire people who studied and learned several languages
Sadly, the US does not really appreciate the importance of 'foreign' languages and classes for our young kids
We should correct that but i wont hold my breath

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I'm bad at typing ANY language when I've had a few glasses of wine. (ᵔᴥᵔ)

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A perfectly understandable situation

I love the Panda face btw
Cute!

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Had to google a smiley that would work from a PC on this site. If I post from my phone the inhouse smileys seem to show up without a problem.

Back to autocorrect, the funniest I had was that it kept autocorrecting the Swedish word "fick" to "fuck", a word I had taught it and put in my "personal dictionary" for English. Not so great for professional emails. (well, depending on the profession. :D)

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Ha😆
I dont mess with the dictionary for this very reason!
I have a potty mouth and my workplace is pretty professional and uptight lol

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I'm not sure about my current phone's autocorrect Spanners but my old Nokia would change pub to sub and pint to riot.

I'd often go down to the sub for a riot.

Something I'm sure the NSA would be able to charge me with these days.

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My Fire tablet is baffling at times but the funniest one is it changes my husbands email to Jedi****@****.co.uk he loves it of course but it's very irritating.

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Any and all of them.



😎

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Tell me aboot it.

"I'm diving to the store now."

"I'm being tailbaited."

"Someone's peeping at me."

"Traffic's moving really plow."

"I'm being pilled over."

"I don't remember getting this bent on my car."


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I like autocorrect,it's very useful.

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If only posts had auto-correct here.

"It's harder to reply to ghosts while driving."

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As an Aussie I've been brought up to spell using proper English, not that Yankee way of spelling. So I do get annoyed when my phone assumes humor instead of humour.

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You should have a language setting that will allow you to select the Queen’s English in place of our vulgar knockoff.

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I just checked and it's set to English (Australia). Go figure!

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I switched to English (Australia) on my ipad and got the same result as you, but when I switched to English (U.K.), I get the suggestions you’re looking for, e.g. humour, colour, flavour etc.

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Thanks for the tip

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The other day I typed Kardashian, which spellcheck recognises,; yet not recognises, or whatever word I was typing with British spelling.

I found this to be vaguely depressing.

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Lol!

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For to Fir. What genius decided that Fir is a more common word in the English language than For that it needs to replace it every time I type it?

I keep meaning to disable auto correct. I think it said it has to learn when I installed it but if it hasn't learned by now.

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Who ever heard of a Douglas For?

"been driving fir and hour and I just want to get home"

"My passenger won't stop talking on his phone but he did pay fir gas, so I'll just keep driving, IDK LOL."

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