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[-] ngz@lemmy.world 22 points 2 years ago

I haven't been here much since I joined last week, but one thing I noticed is I've barely seen any typos on Lemmy. While I definitely don't mind seeing the occasional typo, the number of spelling mistakes was getting annoying, and it's gotten progressively worse over the last year or so.

[-] Demigod787@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

How do you even make any typos with all the autocorrect nowadays is beyond me.

[-] StarManta@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

Autocorrect is the cause of many of my typos

[-] DarkDarkHouse@lemmy.sdf.org 8 points 2 years ago

Autocorrect catches all my typos, and for that I’m eternally grapefruit

[-] GONADS125@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

My autocorrect on my Galaxy s22+ is actually a detriment to me... It constantly changes "me" to "Mr" or "MT" and dumb shit like that.. I spend more time correcting 'autocorrects' than typing text.. Why is it so bad suddenly??

[-] phamanhvu01@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I personally don't use auto correct for a couple reason, so typos still happen from time to time.

[-] JesusTheCarpenter@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago

What are the reasons if you don't mind me asking? I write in 3 languages on the same mobile keyboard and it does a fantastic job correcting my spelling.

[-] Gabu@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

In my experience as a fellow polyglot, Google's autocorrection is good most of the time, and horribly unusable once in a while. At one point it attempted to correct every single word in a sentence.

[-] Piers@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

As someone with dyslexia I definitely still find a way sometimes.

[-] skillissuer@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

it's simpler when you use speech to text, or use autocorrect dictionary of wrong language

[-] daan@lemmy.vanoverloop.xyz 4 points 2 years ago

I think people here might be more conscious of what they post, due to the relatively low quantity of things being posted here. On larger platforms, what you write is more likely to be overlooked, so people care less.

[-] loudWaterEnjoyer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 years ago

Ya bro u damn rite finalysumeonre has the guts to say it. I hope dis comunity stay crispy

[-] SomeOtherUsername@lemmynsfw.com 2 points 2 years ago

My pet peeve is when people put a space before the full stop or the exclamation mark. Something like this !

[-] Gabu@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

You monster, how could you ?

[-] GoofSchmoofer@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

I think many of the typos were on purpose. The idea was to get engagement and telling OP that they misspelled something was engagement. It's "algorithm think"

this post was submitted on 29 Jun 2023
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