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Post by Mari on Dec 31, 2014 10:44:31 GMT
I figured as much. I didn't think you were drunk
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Post by Alvamiga on Dec 31, 2014 15:50:22 GMT
One important thing with autocorrect is to learn the way it behaves and not try and fight it. Very often you can start to type something utterly wrong, but if you keep going it will still get it right.
I accidentally discovered a couple of days ago that Android's normal system shows 3 suggestions for the next word, but if you hold down on one of them, it will suggest up to 15 others!
Of course, the iPhone autocorrect is pants, even having the ability to junk correct words, spelt correctly, and replace them with words you've never heard of!
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Post by tangent on Dec 31, 2014 19:27:35 GMT
Of course, the iPhone autocorrect is pants, even having the ability to junk correct words, spelt correctly, and replace them with words you've never heard of! I would have thought the iPhone autocorrect would be the same as the iPad autocorrect, which works out quite well. You get used to it's idiosyncracies and can always reject it's suggestions by pressing a cross above it.
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Post by Alvamiga on Jan 1, 2015 19:23:55 GMT
If you type slowly, you will often see the bad "corrections" and not submit them, but if you are typing quickly, you often don't notice it messing things up and have started on the next word. On the ipad, you probably don't hit so many wrong keys while typing, so it probably makes less of the errors. On a bigger keyboard, I'd probably not make very many mistakes and would most likely just turn it off anyway.
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Post by tangent on Jan 1, 2015 20:30:35 GMT
On the iPad I leave characters out knowing that autocorrect will put them in. For example, I type 'dont', 'its', 'theyre', and leave autocorrect to fill in the apostrophes.
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Post by Shake on Jan 3, 2015 20:05:12 GMT
I'd want to brush up on my German, were to go for a visit. I feel fairly confident I could navigate most signage, but would feel lacking conversationally. At least I know how to order a beer, though!
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Post by tangent on Jan 3, 2015 22:35:00 GMT
Sadly, all my attempts at speaking the local language have failed in the past because (a) I am bad at learning languages, and (b) local people revert to English as soon as I start trying to speak their language.
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Post by Alvamiga on Jan 10, 2015 18:15:36 GMT
On the iPad I leave characters out knowing that autocorrect will put them in. For example, I type 'dont', 'its', 'theyre', and leave autocorrect to fill in the apostrophes. I do that too. I even type in words, not certain of the spelling. A lot of people just type and don't look back at or correct what's gone by, hence so many silly mistakes getting by.
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Post by Mari on Jan 10, 2015 20:25:36 GMT
Yes, something I have to try really hard to teach my students, but they don't seem to get it.
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Post by bill on Jan 10, 2015 22:41:25 GMT
Sadly, all my attempts at speaking the local language have failed in the past because (a) I am bad at learning languages, and (b) local people revert to English as soon as I start trying to speak their language. Also if someone does reply in their language you often have a problem because you cannot understand what they have just said back to you. When we were in the Canaries recently I did not get past Gracias, Por Favor and Ola.
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Post by Moose on Jan 11, 2015 1:46:03 GMT
*waves at Bill*
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Post by kingedmund on Jan 13, 2015 5:10:28 GMT
Hi bill. How r you?
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Post by Yuki on Jan 15, 2015 8:57:12 GMT
There was a bit of a shitstorm, but I still think people lack a general understanding of language and what it means and that you can't just abandon yours. Sometimes people abandon their native language for economic or social considerations, usually when they coexist with a more powerful culture that has a different language. This is how 60-65% of the population of Morocco was "arabized" over time, as parents stopped teaching their children their mother language, and spoke to them in a dialectal mix of Amazigh (Berber) languages and Arabic (which evolved into nowadays Darija, my mother language). As generations went on people's memories concerning their origins faded, and many started calling themselves "Arabs". This trend is still ongoing nowadays.
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Post by bill on Jan 15, 2015 12:12:18 GMT
Still recovering from flu over Christmas but apart from that alright thanks.
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