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Post ITT whenever autocorrect is dumb

Post by Bigdog (?) » Thu Mar 21, 2019 3:15 pm

Autocorrect changed 'fuckers' to 'tickets' in a post I made so I had to edit it

Under what heuristic is it more likely that I typoed it that badly than that I meant to use a swear? Especially since this phone should be well acquainted with my god damn rhetorical habits

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Re: Post ITT whenever autocorrect is dumb

Post by Perrydotto (?) » Thu Mar 21, 2019 3:16 pm

my autocorrect is instructed to detect whether I'm using German or English and make suggestions accordingly which can lead to hilarious results, I'll post them when I get them
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Re: Post ITT whenever autocorrect is dumb

Post by Bigdog (?) » Thu Mar 21, 2019 3:16 pm

It tried to correct damn to Dan too. "God Dan" makes no sense you stupid thing that is supposed to make sense of my keystrokes

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Re: Post ITT whenever autocorrect is dumb

Post by Perrydotto (?) » Thu Mar 21, 2019 3:16 pm

Bigdog wrote:
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It tried to correct damn to Dan too. "God Dan" makes no sense you stupid thing that is supposed to make sense of my keystrokes
so you are saying our dear admin overlord is not a God?!?!?!?
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Re: Post ITT whenever autocorrect is dumb

Post by Octavia (?) » Thu Mar 21, 2019 3:49 pm

I switched from an iOS phone to Android a couple years ago, and the only thing I really miss is iOS's auto-correct, which is approximately 400 times better than the garbage Android one. I typed in "becessary" by accident and Android did not have ANY suggestions as to what word I could've possibly meant to type. :seethe:
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Re: Post ITT whenever autocorrect is dumb

Post by Bigdog (?) » Thu Mar 21, 2019 3:55 pm

I tried that just now and my (s7 edge, updated) android suggested the appropriate word, but I can well believe that it sucked more a couple years ago

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Re: Post ITT whenever autocorrect is dumb

Post by Gloomy Rube (?) » Thu Mar 21, 2019 5:37 pm

my phone's autocorrect likes to suggest "Piyo piyo" after most words.

no I don't know why my phone wants to make cute baby chicken noises
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Re: Post ITT whenever autocorrect is dumb

Post by Fizzbuzz (?) » Thu Mar 21, 2019 6:25 pm

Bigdog wrote:
Thu Mar 21, 2019 3:15 pm
Autocorrect changed 'fuckers' to 'tickets' in a post I made so I had to edit it

Under what heuristic is it more likely that I typoed it that badly than that I meant to use a swear? Especially since this phone should be well acquainted with my god damn rhetorical habits
I can see it. F and T are consonants that are right next to each other, U and I are vowels that are right next to each other, both words share "cke" in the exact same position, R and T are also right next to each other, and both words share a final S. I get the feeling that spelling checkers, especially autocorrect systems, count swears in an odd limbo where they're not affirmed as words but also not considered typos.
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Re: Post ITT whenever autocorrect is dumb

Post by Bigdog (?) » Thu Mar 21, 2019 6:36 pm

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I can see it. F and T are consonants that are right next to each other, U and I are vowels that are right next to each other, both words share "cke" in the exact same position, R and T are also right next to each other, and both words share a final S. I get the feeling that spelling checkers, especially autocorrect systems, count swears in an odd limbo where they're not affirmed as words but also not considered typos.
Yeah, I see that, my point was more that I'd think, in this situation, p(user made those exact three mishaps that happened to form a different, valid in the context, word) < p(user meant to use a swear)

If they're somehow squeamish about swears, it's dumb because their job isn't to judge someone's use of language, it's to make a tool that works properly. I mean probably err on the side of not autocorrecting to swears but realize that if someone correctly types a swear, they probably meant to

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Re: Post ITT whenever autocorrect is dumb

Post by Octavia (?) » Thu Mar 21, 2019 9:33 pm

Bigdog wrote:
Thu Mar 21, 2019 3:55 pm
I tried that just now and my (s7 edge, updated) android suggested the appropriate word, but I can well believe that it sucked more a couple years ago
I just tried it on my Pixel running Android 9 and it still has no suggestions. :pinkieshrug:
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Re: Post ITT whenever autocorrect is dumb

Post by The Ghost of Ember (?) » Thu Mar 21, 2019 10:51 pm

today my phone corrected 'yaeh' to 'hail to paimon! we have looked to the northwest and called you in. we reject the trinity and pray devoutly to you, great paimon: give us your knowledge of all secret things and all mysteries of the earth; bring us honor, wealth and good familiars; and bind all men to our will, as we have bound ourselves for now and ever to yours.'

what a wacky error in the algorithm :v:
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Re: Post ITT whenever autocorrect is dumb

Post by Bigdog (?) » Wed Mar 27, 2019 10:38 pm

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crossposting this here since I don't see how else this could've happened

at least when autocorrect fucks me up I'm usually not sending out a mass email in an official capacity as representative of a group :-I

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Re: Post ITT whenever autocorrect is dumb

Post by Pocket (?) » Thu Mar 28, 2019 3:31 am

Octavia wrote:
Thu Mar 21, 2019 3:49 pm
I switched from an iOS phone to Android a couple years ago, and the only thing I really miss is iOS's auto-correct, which is approximately 400 times better than the garbage Android one.
Good to know. The only consistent problem I've had with the autocorrect on this iPad is a weird tendency to retroactively capitalize random words in the middle of sentences sometimes. But I hate that it's a thing! And there's no way to turn it off except to turn off all auto-capitalization, including shift turning on at the start of a new line or after hitting period and space. :-/
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Re: Post ITT whenever autocorrect is dumb

Post by Bigdog (?) » Sun Apr 07, 2019 4:09 pm

phone, why do you autocorrect "thus" to "this" when "thus" is a perfectly valid word in the place where I am typing it

more generally, why would you ever autocorrect the same word twice in a row when I carefully back up and try to type it again

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Re: Post ITT whenever autocorrect is dumb

Post by Fizzbuzz (?) » Sun Apr 07, 2019 6:36 pm

Pocket wrote:
Thu Mar 28, 2019 3:31 am
The only consistent problem I've had with the autocorrect on this iPad is a weird tendency to retroactively capitalize random words in the middle of sentences sometimes. But I hate that it's a thing! And there's no way to turn it off except to turn off all auto-capitalization, including shift turning on at the start of a new line or after hitting period and space. :-/
Are you sure about that? My iPad has those all as separate options, available under Settings > General > Keyboard:
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Re: Post ITT whenever autocorrect is dumb

Post by Pocket (?) » Sun Apr 07, 2019 8:24 pm

And that turns off all auto-capitalization, including shift turning on at the start of a new line and after hitting period and space.
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Re: Post ITT whenever autocorrect is dumb

Post by Bigdog (?) » Sun May 05, 2019 5:41 pm

User: wishes to type "devil's advocate"

Phone: needs the 'o' before it realizes that "adventure" is not, in fact, the most likely desired word

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Re: Post ITT whenever autocorrect is dumb

Post by Bigdog (?) » Sun May 05, 2019 5:41 pm

Did the phrase "devil's adventure" gain a bunch of currency while I wasn't paying attention

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Re: Post ITT whenever autocorrect is dumb

Post by Bigdog (?) » Mon Jun 03, 2019 6:05 pm

My phone decided, with no prompting or training that I am aware of, that I really needed to have the word "Male" capitalized, thus, even when it was occurring in the middle of a sentence with no wonky punctuation around it.

That seems like the sort of thing you'd do if you were the author of some kind of quasi-schizophrenic misogyny manifesto. :squintyjack:

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Re: Post ITT whenever autocorrect is dumb

Post by Madeline (?) » Sat Jun 08, 2019 6:26 am

Bigdog wrote:
Mon Jun 03, 2019 6:05 pm
My phone decided, with no prompting or training that I am aware of, that I really needed to have the word "Male" capitalized, thus, even when it was occurring in the middle of a sentence with no wonky punctuation around it.

That seems like the sort of thing you'd do if you were the author of some kind of quasi-schizophrenic misogyny manifesto. :squintyjack:
I regret to inform you that your phone has been hijacked by Dave Sim :flutterdear:

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Re: Post ITT whenever autocorrect is dumb

Post by Bigdog (?) » Wed Jun 12, 2019 12:17 am

Madeline wrote:
Sat Jun 08, 2019 6:26 am
I regret to inform you that your phone has been hijacked by Dave Sim :flutterdear:
Didn't know who this guy was so I googled. Thanks, I hate it

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Re: Post ITT whenever autocorrect is dumb

Post by Madeline (?) » Wed Jul 17, 2019 2:17 pm

Bigdog wrote:
Wed Jun 12, 2019 12:17 am
Didn't know who this guy was so I googled. Thanks, I hate it
I’m sorry :flutterdear:

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Re: Post ITT whenever autocorrect is dumb

Post by Bigdog (?) » Wed Jul 17, 2019 3:58 pm

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I’m sorry :flutterdear:
It's not your fault, I didn't mean that in a bad way towards you :hug:

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Re: Post ITT whenever autocorrect is dumb

Post by diribigal (?) » Sun Jul 28, 2019 8:48 am

Not quite autocorrect, but I just told my cat that he's a "good boy" and said "I love you". My phone decided I said something like "Ok, Google" and that I professed my love for my phone.
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Re: Post ITT whenever autocorrect is dumb

Post by ToastGhost (?) » Sun Jul 28, 2019 9:49 am

re thread title: I can't post in here every second of every day. :rainbert:
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Re: Post ITT whenever autocorrect is dumb

Post by ToastGhost (?) » Sun Jul 28, 2019 9:49 am

Or can I? :sbahj:
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Re: Post ITT whenever autocorrect is dumb

Post by Fizzbuzz (?) » Sun Jul 28, 2019 10:25 am

Just turn off autocorrect, jeez.
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