I once picked up a ham for my boss and put it in the office refrigerator. I then sent her a text, “the ham is in the fridge.” Autocorrect, in its finite wisdom, changed “ham” to “BM”. Yeah, not what you want to find in the fridge…I sent her an immediate correction.
It’s bad on my Android tablet too, but one good use I’ve found for it is that when I want “I’m” or “I’ve”, I just type im or ive and it corrects it for me. That doesn’t happen with Windows.
I don’t understand this at all! I have never had a device or app of any kind that had autocorrect that I couldn’t turn off, and I always have. I mean, I still get that red squiggly underline when it thinks I misspelled something, and sometimes it is right, but it’s easy to ignore. Why would anyone leave such a disaster-in-the-making ON?
Autocorrect even has bad grammar, inserting ‘s on a plural. It cannot handle Southernisms like go get’em, which it always wants to change to get’ed and what word is there ever that has ‘ed as an ending? Grampa is always changed to gramps. It’s like it gets lonely and wants someone to come play armwrestling with it.
stellanova87 about 4 years ago
That happens to me so often when writing comments here (except for today, figures).
unfair.de about 4 years ago
Hey, Greg, you got my hairdo wrong but nailed my attitude!
david_42 about 4 years ago
So shut it off. My phone’s predictive typing is totally worthless. I shut it off and it turns back on all by itself.
Michael G. about 4 years ago
Turn it off, if you can. My machine is not smarter than I, but it does make mistakes faster than I can.
Vet Premium Member about 4 years ago
I keep mine off. That way I own the meme mistakes!!
jackianne1020 about 4 years ago
I once picked up a ham for my boss and put it in the office refrigerator. I then sent her a text, “the ham is in the fridge.” Autocorrect, in its finite wisdom, changed “ham” to “BM”. Yeah, not what you want to find in the fridge…I sent her an immediate correction.
HappyDog/ᵀʳʸ ᴮᵒᶻᵒ ⁴ ᵗʰᵉ ᶠᵘⁿ ᵒᶠ ᶦᵗ Premium Member about 4 years ago
It’s bad on my Android tablet too, but one good use I’ve found for it is that when I want “I’m” or “I’ve”, I just type im or ive and it corrects it for me. That doesn’t happen with Windows.
sew-so about 4 years ago
I don’t understand this at all! I have never had a device or app of any kind that had autocorrect that I couldn’t turn off, and I always have. I mean, I still get that red squiggly underline when it thinks I misspelled something, and sometimes it is right, but it’s easy to ignore. Why would anyone leave such a disaster-in-the-making ON?
amaryllis2 Premium Member about 4 years ago
Autocorrect even has bad grammar, inserting ‘s on a plural. It cannot handle Southernisms like go get’em, which it always wants to change to get’ed and what word is there ever that has ‘ed as an ending? Grampa is always changed to gramps. It’s like it gets lonely and wants someone to come play armwrestling with it.