I'm totally abandoning auto correct and spell checker.

[ThatsTheGuy]

Tired of the BS. I spend more time correcting auto correct and Checking spell check than I do writing. That goes double for the cell phone. You can have that useless tool.

 

[GrandTeton]

Points for that. I don't mind spellcheck pointing out what might be an error (or might not, it has a limited vocabulary), but I never use it to autocorrect. Which is apparently misspelled. The grammar correction programs I ignore, although Word has something that wants me to pay attention to it. As it turns out, an author can't abandon responsibility for the work to a machine. Unfortunately.

 

[SusanJillParker]

Tired of the BS. I spend more time correcting auto correct and Checking spell check than I do writing. That goes double for the cell phone. You can have that useless tool.

I don't know what version of Word you have or if you even use Word but the latest version of Word does much better on auto correct, grammar correct, and spell check. Having an older version of Word is frustrating to use after using their latest software.

 

[FaeLissa]

Is probly gonna look silly considering the way I talk but even Office 365 has horrible grammar checking. Part of its problem is trying to be professional, which has inconsistent rules, sos gets in a infinite circle of always being wrong (although not near as bad as Word 2010).
Spell checking is better - has a much bigger dictionary than prev versions - but is still constrained by being aimed at "business" writers and tends to flag perfectly real words as wrong, particularly if they is outside the limited range that is considered proper business words (tech words make it get all nervous and giggly).
Is NOT just a failing of Office 365 or MS tools - OpenOffice and LibreOffice fail almost precisely the same ways, although LibreOffice has more room for not-business (allows more regular words and more fancier words than is considered correct in a business document, not better on grammar).

Since words is hard for me, I leave the checks on - is easier than fighting my brain to get the easy stuff - but usually has lots to just tell the programs "shush, you's wrong" at the final edit.

Grammar checks and dialog do not get along at all. Those tools is not made for parsing how peoples talks. Is pretty much a brute force thing - HOWEVER - is useful at showing when is using TOO MUCH high-faluting grammar that is too formal for how peoples talk - it DOES know that is wrong and makes ugly red lines when you does it. (Real handy in tech docs, too - tech is already hard for some peoples to read, making it excessively flowery makes it worse.)

I never let autocorrect. Is hard enough to edit what I said without having it change behind my back.

EDIT: and does NOT use "Google Docs" suggestions! Dunno what language it's supposed to be but it ain't English as used in US, UK, RoI, Oz, or NZ. Gots a dictionary what doesn't even knows which variant of the -or/-our suffix to use - is almost always saying the one you chosed is wrong. End up with a doc with a mix of two different variants randomly scattered throughout. Most of it's suggestions are outright wrong in any of the variants. Trust Google to take a perfectly screwed up language and make it worse.

 

[jomar]

Spellcheck is fine. Auto correct is some evil shit.

 

[Handley_Page]

Spellcheck is fine. Auto correct is some evil shit.

How Very True

 

[Emirus]

(A). Is probly gonna look silly considering the way I talk

(B). I never let autocorrect. Is hard enough to edit what I said without having it change behind my back.

(A). It’s not the way you speak that’s important it’s the quality of your writing. I’ve read the three most recent of your stories which showed, even with your self deprecating way, that there’s nothing wrong with your imagination.

(B). From the many stories I’ve read on here I would say that the vast majority of writers have a pretty good command of the English language. Nobody’s spelling is perfect, and even the best make mistakes, but a writer should always attempt to improve their grammar rather than relying on any kind of autocorrection. There are books called dictionaries, that have been around for a year or two, that can be very helpful.

 

[TarnishedPenny]

I'm with Grand Teton et al - spellcheck is OK because it can alert me to problems and I can ignore 'false positives'. Autocorrect on the other hand turns my computer into that cell phone which sends gibberish texts - never, ever, ever again.

 

[Jada59]

I got a funny text last night. The guy asked me if I knew of any good senators around here and could I also ask my daughter? I couldn't imagine why he needed a senator. And since we live in the Seattle area, I wound up giving him a mini rant about how corrupt and useless I thought they all were.

I did ask my daughter but she was baffled.

Later, I called and asked if he found a good senator and there was this long pause. Then he said, "I need a DENTIST!" Now it made sense. Daughter works for a dentist. How his phone autocorrected to that is beyond me.

 

[jaF0]

Spellcheck is fine. Auto correct is some evil shit.

Yes, but when quite is typed instead of quote, they don't really help much. Even grammar checkers don't pick everything like that up.

 

[Uggg]

Eye um aslo abangdanging astro cock und spill kicker!

 

[Bramblethorn]

Later, I called and asked if he found a good senator and there was this long pause. Then he said, "I need a DENTIST!" Now it made sense. Daughter works for a dentist. How his phone autocorrected to that is beyond me.

On a standard keyboard layout, S is next to D; EN is common; T is common; I is next to O; R is next to T. If you're using something like Swype, where you trace out the shape of a whole word rather than tapping individual letters, it's plausible that a couple of minor errors would make "Senator" seem like a good guess.

 

[TANSTAAFL58]

I live in Canada. History gave us UK spelling (that's what I was taught in school). Geography gave us US spelling. Thats what I got in popular media from National Geographic to Playboy. For years at work I used UK spelling when dealing with companies in the UK and US spelling when dealing with American companies.

Then two things happened.

Email

My employer was sold to a British company. I went out of my way to use American spelling. Now we are Canadian owned, but with American senior managers. I mostly use UK spelling.

Keeps everyone on their toes. And, no spell checker likes a switch.

 

[someoneyouknow]

Use Notepad, or something similar. You'll never have to worry about auto correct or spell checking ever again.

 

[TheeGoatPig]

Points for that. I don't mind spellcheck pointing out what might be an error (or might not, it has a limited vocabulary), but I never use it to autocorrect. Which is apparently misspelled. The grammar correction programs I ignore, although Word has something that wants me to pay attention to it. As it turns out, an author can't abandon responsibility for the work to a machine. Unfortunately.

This is what I do as well. I don't spell well. So I need help. But I never let it autocorrect or it would be all kinds of wrong.

And I add autocorrect to my dictionaries (which I just misspelled). It should be a real word but simply isn't recognized as one yet.

 

[MSTarot]

To me they are too invauable tool a for me to simply stop using. I can't say what my work woudl look like without them but i can give a hint in this simple parragraoph.

This is what the fun of dyslexia lookks likw without a spell checker pointing out places I can't see as well by myself.

Yes, it makes mistakes, but this is simply too much for me to have to trya nd play hunt and find.

Now imagin whata 60k story would be like trying to make this many corections.

I use three. i use Grammarly as my primary checker, then if I postinga story a story to Lit i will go over it here with this site's spell checker, again a nice option is alos using a third one, I thing the one in word is a fucntical option.

And yes turning off auto correct is essencial.




I do wish I could say that the above is exaggerated, but it isn't. That is an average sample of what a story would look like for me in a rough draft if I didn't correct on the fly as I write, and then run it through a checker.

Fun and joy.

 

[TarnishedPenny]

MS Tarot - That sucks. My SO has dyslexia. Have you tried the Dyslexie or OpenDyslexic fonts for your own use? They're free on the net and seem to help.