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The apple keyboard sucks, no idea why it happened
Because you didn’t proofread. Don’t blame technology for your shortcomings.
[No, I’m not an apple fanboy. I just hate the excuse “It happened on its own”]
Seriously why I turn off autocorrect. 80% of the time, the autocorrection is worse than submitting a damn normal typo. It's bad enough when it's only trying to correct spelling. All the autopunctuation and junk is just pure suffering... I hate a one-character typo turning in to erasing a whole-ass wrong word with extra capitalization that's not even supposed to be there just because I hit spacebar before noticing.
If you proofread before hitting send or submit then autocorrect learns from that.
Not if I turn it off because I don't want my phone analyzing everything I do. I don't need a spy in my pocket. Especially true for voice assistants.
I type better than the fucking autocorrect corrects anyways, so I'll take typos that are easy to spot over "corrected" words that are grammatically wrong and harder to spot every time.
He's right. Always blame your parents.
This isn't exactly a formal writing space. I post almost exclusively from my phone. I'm a terrible type on my phone, freely admitted, but I do what I can to correct things. Sometimes it just gets missed, though. I make an effort to edit, but at the end of the day, this is just going to a bunch of dummies on the Internet, not someone who matters to my life. I'll put in exactly what I feel is the appropriate effort.
Sometimes people genuinely don’t know correct syntax. If you’re going to call that a shortcoming, you’re an ignorant walnut. Intellectual superiority is a shitty way to pretend to be better than someone else. It often incorrectly assumes everyone types the same language with the same proficiency which is a very provincial assumption.
OP made it very clear in this very thread that they know the difference.
Gboard does it too. I'm fairly certain I use the possessive form of "its" more often than the contraction "it's," but the damn thing sees an s at the end of a word and is like "that's GOTTA be a contraction!"