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.

[–] TheRedSpade@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

If you proofread before hitting send or submit then autocorrect learns from that.

[–] MotoAsh@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

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.

[–] thesmokingman@programming.dev -1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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.

[–] bleistift2@feddit.de 1 points 2 years ago

OP made it very clear in this very thread that they know the difference.