• rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee
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    2 months ago

    Never. Turned that shit off. Don’t need it. If I can’t spell hippoospotiamus right now it’s your problem not mine.

  • flamingo_pinyata@sopuli.xyz
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    2 months ago

    All the time. Depending on the app and device, my spell checker might be set to American English, British English or Spanish. And I never check which before I start writing.

    One quirk of not being a native speaker of English is that I don’t really have a default spelling - colour or color, it depends on what the spellchecker says

  • ptc075@lemmy.zip
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    2 months ago

    My company is European. Although all our templates are written in English, the check-language is set to Italian. So, pretty much every single word.

    And yes, every time a new template comes out, we have to go through block by block and reset them to English. But even then a bunch slips through. Usually takes about a month to filter all the filters out.

  • Crackhappy@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    I’ll never use a spell checker again. The last time, I ended up with my feet on backwards. That witch can’t spell check shit.

  • some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org
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    2 months ago

    I had a habit of letting the spellchecker alert me to misspellings but didn’t allow it to correct them. This was to teach me to figure out the correct spelling of difficult words. But now that so much typing is with thumbs on glass, I let it fix things for me (as well as incorrectly modify the word I intended) all the time. Still doing it the old way on a physical kbd, though.

  • meco03211@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Less the spell checker and more the “swipe”. If it pulls the wrong word based on my swipe, the suggestions it offers as alternatives are closer to the word it incorrectly picked vs other words similar to what I swiped. So fucking irritating.

  • snooggums@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Depends on the spellchecker/autocorrect. I know they are technically different because of how you interact with them, but autocorrect is just an automated spellchecker/grammar checker.

    The spellchecker/grammar checker in my web browser on my desktop is great, barely need to fix anything and it brings things to my attention. It also tells me something is wrong, then I choose whether to do the correction.

    The autocorrect on my phone is a steaming pile of crap that changes words into other words that it shouldn’t, so I ended up turning it off because it wouldn’t let me confirm a correct spelling for something that was close to another word.

    So any typos in my posts will be due to doing it on a phone without a spellcheck, since I turned that off and my thumbs aren’t as reliable as my fingers.

  • RebekahWSD@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    I use to write things for a sci-fi mud, so frequently I’d be adding things to the spellchecker. Usually I just have to correct things on the phone when it thinks I want wrote instead of write or the like.