Hello, welcome to the Weekend Gene Pool, where I enforce a solemn covenant every week: I entertain you, and in return you supply me with Anecdotes answering a question I pose.
Autocorrect needs a complementary function called Stet. I want a button on my keyboard that disables Autocorrect for the next word and, if pressed and held (or double-tapped), engages Stet-lock until I turn it off.
Supposedly true: A guy’s wife is shopping, tries on a dress, takes a selfie, sends it to him, asking, “Does this make me look fat?” He replies, “Noooo!” Autocorrect changed it to “Moooo!” Roy Ashley
Re adulting. I picked the 19=25 range because I felt like an adult == Then. I’m now in my late eighties and realize now how naive I was. I peaked in my fifties. I can still be an adult now, but I have to work harder at it and rarely make the effort.
Autocorrect is one of the reasons I have not yet become an adult. It treats us as children, because it thinks it knows better than we do what we’re going to say.
I like speed-dial on my phone, it’s very convenient. Before the advent of this feature, I had dozens of phone numbers memorized; not so much anymore. On one hand, it’s another example of technology infantalizing society. On the other hand, it frees up brain space for more important things—such as creating clever comments for the Gene Pool.
Is Autocorrect responsible for the ludicrosity frequently manifested in Closed Captioning? Just the other day, when Starlink was being launched, the CC presented several minutes of "two NASA restaurants" for my befuddlement. I rely on CC as my senses fail, and I don't need to be gaslighted about my cognition into the bargain.
More likely incorrect speech recognition. Although the same predictive algorithms are used by both. One tries to figure out likely words from letters, the other from recognized phonemes, i.e. the sounds of speech.
I was in the store recently with my 25 year old daughter. As she was placing something that was not a snack food into her cart, I heard her say to herself, “God, I hate being an adult.”
This just in... I have been informed of an insidious cyber plot of long-standing to attack the very foundation of American society. Forget infrastructure, we're talking actual words here. It began with texting and its abbreviations and acronyms. Now it's autocorrect. Why do you think the same wrong words keep showing up as oh-so-polite suggested replacements --- weakening your self-confidence each time? Soon you'll just accept the replacement, then another and still another until you're visited by either a linguistics or behavioral health professional. Maybe both. I have passed this obvious conspiracy on to the newspaper formerly known as the WaPo and was told it will get its Alito flag team right on it.
I like the feature in word processors and Google apps that underlines words and makes suggestions. It deals in typos, grammar and spelling, rather than "You don't really mean to say that, do you?" -- because I mostly do, Autocorrect on my Android phone is evil. It changes perfectly normal words into nonsense. When I try to dictate a text it will appear on the screen correctly and then change to something weird right before my eyes -- or worse, just as I hit send. I don't know whether it's my voice or device-specific, because my son dictates all his texts to his iPhone and they come out fine.
No autocorrect. No Siri listening in on my phone calls. And especially, ESPECIALLY, no predictive text! I will write my own words the way I want to say them, thankyouverymuch.
Suggest you ask your bank to add autocorrect to your account. I believe you can opt for several different visual balance multiples, numerically ranging from "Satisfying" to "All the beluga you can eat pal" Or not. And, if you think something as algorithmically straightforward as autocorrect is irritating, wait until AI takes hold and you're regularly HAL'd: "I'm sorry, Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that. Why would you even say that? And that way? Jeez!" I have it on good authority that Pat the Past Perfect is intimately involved with this very thing, drawing on her reservoir of extraordinary blue pencil insults such as "You cannot be serious!" said to have even been appropriated by a former tennis great, in the lore of copy editing. This is remembered in hushed, reverent toes whenever copy editors meat in their immediately shortened gatherings.
Autocorrect needs a complementary function called Stet. I want a button on my keyboard that disables Autocorrect for the next word and, if pressed and held (or double-tapped), engages Stet-lock until I turn it off.
Supposedly true: A guy’s wife is shopping, tries on a dress, takes a selfie, sends it to him, asking, “Does this make me look fat?” He replies, “Noooo!” Autocorrect changed it to “Moooo!” Roy Ashley
My wife asked “Do I look fat?” and my response was “Do I look stupid?”
A variation. "Do these glasses make my face look fat?" "Hand them over and I'll take a look." (optional drum sting).
That made me laugh out loud, which I rarely do. Thank you sir.
You are most welcome.
The correct response to this question is; What dress?
Re adulting. I picked the 19=25 range because I felt like an adult == Then. I’m now in my late eighties and realize now how naive I was. I peaked in my fifties. I can still be an adult now, but I have to work harder at it and rarely make the effort.
Gene,
Michelle Singletary can probably point you to a decent financial advisor in exchange for a few nose hairs and your PIN numbers.
Autocorrect is one of the reasons I have not yet become an adult. It treats us as children, because it thinks it knows better than we do what we’re going to say.
I like speed-dial on my phone, it’s very convenient. Before the advent of this feature, I had dozens of phone numbers memorized; not so much anymore. On one hand, it’s another example of technology infantalizing society. On the other hand, it frees up brain space for more important things—such as creating clever comments for the Gene Pool.
Is Autocorrect responsible for the ludicrosity frequently manifested in Closed Captioning? Just the other day, when Starlink was being launched, the CC presented several minutes of "two NASA restaurants" for my befuddlement. I rely on CC as my senses fail, and I don't need to be gaslighted about my cognition into the bargain.
More likely incorrect speech recognition. Although the same predictive algorithms are used by both. One tries to figure out likely words from letters, the other from recognized phonemes, i.e. the sounds of speech.
Autocorrect is the devil's playground.
I dislike it so much that I hit No without even reading the other choices.
I was in the store recently with my 25 year old daughter. As she was placing something that was not a snack food into her cart, I heard her say to herself, “God, I hate being an adult.”
This just in... I have been informed of an insidious cyber plot of long-standing to attack the very foundation of American society. Forget infrastructure, we're talking actual words here. It began with texting and its abbreviations and acronyms. Now it's autocorrect. Why do you think the same wrong words keep showing up as oh-so-polite suggested replacements --- weakening your self-confidence each time? Soon you'll just accept the replacement, then another and still another until you're visited by either a linguistics or behavioral health professional. Maybe both. I have passed this obvious conspiracy on to the newspaper formerly known as the WaPo and was told it will get its Alito flag team right on it.
In answer to your question, because the Earth has made 53 revolutions around the Sun since my birth.
"I'm younger than I once was and older than I'll be."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ymuj1CcY7C0
I like the feature in word processors and Google apps that underlines words and makes suggestions. It deals in typos, grammar and spelling, rather than "You don't really mean to say that, do you?" -- because I mostly do, Autocorrect on my Android phone is evil. It changes perfectly normal words into nonsense. When I try to dictate a text it will appear on the screen correctly and then change to something weird right before my eyes -- or worse, just as I hit send. I don't know whether it's my voice or device-specific, because my son dictates all his texts to his iPhone and they come out fine.
No autocorrect. No Siri listening in on my phone calls. And especially, ESPECIALLY, no predictive text! I will write my own words the way I want to say them, thankyouverymuch.
Suggest you ask your bank to add autocorrect to your account. I believe you can opt for several different visual balance multiples, numerically ranging from "Satisfying" to "All the beluga you can eat pal" Or not. And, if you think something as algorithmically straightforward as autocorrect is irritating, wait until AI takes hold and you're regularly HAL'd: "I'm sorry, Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that. Why would you even say that? And that way? Jeez!" I have it on good authority that Pat the Past Perfect is intimately involved with this very thing, drawing on her reservoir of extraordinary blue pencil insults such as "You cannot be serious!" said to have even been appropriated by a former tennis great, in the lore of copy editing. This is remembered in hushed, reverent toes whenever copy editors meat in their immediately shortened gatherings.
"This is remembered in hushed, reverent toes whenever copy editors meat in their immediately shortened gatherings." I see what you did there.