• nudny ekscentryk
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          291 year ago

          If they have their keyboard set to a different language but type in English anyway, then it learns English words exactly how they’re spelled. Which means they probably spelled Window with capital W at some point and then it got autocorrected to that exact spelling.

            • @noobdoomguy8658@feddit.de
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              41 year ago

              Sometimes your keyboard also remembers when exactly you use certain words - like in the beginning of sentences, which most keyboards will capitalize by default.

            • Sombyr
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              I hate the whole “its” being converted to “it’s” no matter what thing, but what I hate more is when I teach the keyboard a word, and it STILL won’t let me use it. Taught my keyboard “that’d” and it would autocorrect it to “that’s” every time. And unlike other words, if I went back and manually corrected it back, it wouldn’t leave it, it’d force it back to “that’s” again and refuse to let me change it. Come to think of it, it did that with “it’d” to “it’s” too. Eventually I just switched to a different keyboard with much less aggressive autocorrect, since I still need the autocorrect to type with any semblance of speed due to minor coordination issues.

              My old keyboard abruptly started autocorrecting more typos into what I was saying than it corrected toward the end anyway. Probably some shoddy attempt to implement AI auto correction.

            • @flashgnash@lemm.ee
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              21 year ago

              I’m pretty sure I turned that off ~8-10 years ago and Google has just remembered it ever since

              Also I use swipe typing so that probably helps too

            • @30p87@feddit.de
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              11 year ago

              Gboard does a pretty good job at highlighting your errors correctly in context. I’d guess it’s iPhone users fucking up grammar that much.

          • @Zoop@beehaw.org
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            Good call! I hadn’t thought of that factor; even though my English keyboard does that, too. I can’t type random things it didn’t know until it was taught like “BLARGH” without it auto-capitalizing the entire thing, like it just did here.

            Which is extra hilarious when it’s more nonsense memey things like “SQUART” or “VAGANAINIA” or “PREGANTE” or “DIYUCK” that my friends and I would spam each other with. Looking through the list of words it added to my ‘personal dictionary’ was hilarious. I struggle to get it to type all that nonsense in lowercase and it tickles me!

        • Natanael
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          41 year ago

          Google’s keyboard is the absolute worst for that, tried using it for a bit but I’m back to SwiftKey which isn’t absolutely insane (and which has more customization options too)

          I still miss Swype too, and hopefully one of the open source keyboard apps will get good enough to replace all of them soon enough

      • u/lukmly013 💾 (lemmy.sdf.org)
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        81 year ago

        That, or if they’re like me, the person is just very tired. If I am extremely tired, I basically just hit shift on every word and don’t care about it. In such cases, I might fix my posts and comments in the morning, or even delete them if they feel too much like “what the fuck did I write there”.
        Another key to identify those is double words.
        Example: I Only Started Started Using Computers When When I Was 14.

      • meseek #2982
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        51 year ago

        I type on a mobile keyboard. Have for over a decade. I’ve never typed like this.

    • @Pfnic@feddit.ch
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      71 year ago

      It might come from languages like German where nouns are capitalized. Even in English proper nouns are capitalized so I don’t see why that bothers you so much

    • @lukini@beehaw.org
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      None of your replies even address the weird spaces before commas thing. I’ve directly asked people on Reddit and the answer is always idk if they even reply at all.

      • @LillyPip@lemmy.ca
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        21 year ago

        I see this more often from people for whom English is a second language. Maybe that’s the case here?

        • @lukini@beehaw.org
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          21 year ago

          It might be, but they can never explain why. Is there some other language that does this? I don’t know of one.

          • Natanael
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            11 year ago

            Auto insertion of space in mobile keyboards. Usually they also remove the preceding space when you press enter, but if somebody manually presses space after an automatic insertion of space then you get double spaces and only one will be removed

    • Gormadt
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      61 year ago

      Personally I typically type like that (and like this) due to typing like I speak

      Stilted with many gaps

      Sometimes with a lot of parentheses due to the scatter shot nature of my brain

      But that’s a conversation for another time

      • @Zoop@beehaw.org
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        41 year ago

        Yeah, I see people use commas as pauses where commas definitely aren’t supposed to go and that make no sense whatsoever (to me, anyway, but I know not everyone has the same education, resources, etc.) all the time. I think that’s part of what’s going on here.

        It sounds like our brains work very similarly, fellow random-parentheses-using scatterbrain! I’m both glad I’m not alone and also sad that you experience this frustrating shit, too, haha. I feel for you.

        I much prefer the way you break up your thoughts, by the way. It flows better, makes more sense, and reads in my head voice more like it would if you were speaking (to me, anyway!)

      • @PM_ME_FAT_ENBIES@lib.lgbt
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        11 year ago

        So your speaking voice is grating, and you type the same way on purpose? Why? Just to mentally exhaust everyone around you? Is this a BDSM thing?