Leave my spelling alone
By Koalemos
@Asylum (47893)
Manchester, England
November 5, 2016 3:40pm CST
As an Englishman I naturally understand the English language, so there is nothing wrong with my spelling and command of the language. Nevertheless, whenever I am posting either a discussion or comment on Mylot I have to keep an eye on what is being submitted because the system often amends my spelling.
The most prolific example, which is also the most irritating one, is to change a plural into a possessive term. For example, I may write ships, which the system will immediately change to ship’s. Not only can this be rather annoying, but if I am busy and fail to proof read the comment I end up submitting such appalling English.
I see no reason for this to happen. Autocorrect is supposed to amend poor grammar or spelling, not change words that are perfectly valid.
Leave my spelling alone you stupid software.
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29 responses
@BelleStarr (61047)
• United States
16 Nov 16
I'm sorry but don't you realize what an important country the US is? We determine correct spelling and you are wrong!! lol I guess whoever creates the software determines which spelling is correct so it is color not colour and honor not honour !!! You have to see what auto-correct does to my granddaughter Sydney's name lol
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@Asylum (47893)
• Manchester, England
16 Nov 16
@BelleStarr Then why do you call a car boot a trunk? There were no cars around in those days.
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@BelleStarr (61047)
• United States
16 Nov 16
@Asylum yes I see that quite often as well. I suspect that if our English is like Canadian French that we really speak the English of the 17th century and you in England have evolved so we are speaking the real English lol
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@pgntwo (22412)
• Derry, Northern Ireland
5 Nov 16
Otto sticks his nose in where it is not needed. Otto Krekt, nosey and interfering.
Disabling intrusive Otto's not done in the browser but in device settings, I think:
I hope you had the chance to optimize your web experience by changing your Chrome flags through last week's Android customization post. This week, we want to head back to a fairly beginner's task, changing the settings, or completely disabling, auto-correc
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@ElusiveButterfly (45940)
• United States
5 Nov 16
Ha! I have had perfectly good words changed to numeric. I still can't figure out why.
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@Asylum (47893)
• Manchester, England
5 Nov 16
@ElusiveButterfly By then you know that many other members have seen it, most of whom will assume the error to be yours.
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@ElusiveButterfly (45940)
• United States
5 Nov 16
@Asylum I try to go back and edit when I find it. That's if I find it.
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@allknowing (130067)
• India
6 Nov 16
No one will notice that, save you as myLot has more wrong English, spellings and grammar than anywhere else
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@Asylum (47893)
• Manchester, England
27 Nov 16
@allknowing I know that it is allowed, but fail to understand why a native English speaking person cannot spell English words.
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@allknowing (130067)
• India
27 Nov 16
@Asylum I have been seeing it all over the place native and non-native because it is allowed here
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@changjiangzhibin89 (16518)
• China
6 Nov 16
I haven't noticed it. How come they amend our spelling wrongly? As one like me , English isn't my mother tongue, there is need for them to amend my spelling,but there isn't for you, I think
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@Asylum (47893)
• Manchester, England
6 Nov 16
This is why it annoys me so much to have poor spelling or grammar in my discussions or comments. If you submit a bad spelling it is perfectly understandable and I still admire your ability to use English. Of course if I submit poor spelling it is a different matter because it is my native tongue.
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@Asylum (47893)
• Manchester, England
6 Nov 16
@changjiangzhibin89 Your English is very good.
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@changjiangzhibin89 (16518)
• China
6 Nov 16
@Asylum Thank you ! I come here,just for learning English from you.
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now if only they'd disable that stupid ap
@arthurchappell (45002)
• Preston, England
7 Nov 16
I really hate autocorrect especially on mobile phones
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@Asylum (47893)
• Manchester, England
7 Nov 16
@arthurchappell Annoying to say the least. Maybe mobile phones are all female.
@arthurchappell (45002)
• Preston, England
7 Nov 16
@Asylum mine certainly does that
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@moffittjc (118368)
• Gainesville, Florida
6 Nov 16
Yes, I agree, that stupid software is exactly the reason for all my spelling and grammar mistakes!
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@Asylum (47893)
• Manchester, England
7 Nov 16
@moffittjc That would qualify as an autoincorrect.
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@moffittjc (118368)
• Gainesville, Florida
7 Nov 16
@Asylum The more likely candidate is that my autocorrect is American.
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@ElizabethWallace (12074)
• United States
6 Nov 16
It has a terrible time with the apostrophe, much like the people who wrote the software, no doubt.
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@ElizabethWallace (12074)
• United States
7 Nov 16
@Asylum My English teachers made it very easy to understand. I guess others didn't have this clarity or didn't pay attention in class.
