I want to turn it off entirely, but the "smart" hitboxes for the digital keyboard are also so imprecise that I rely on autocorrect to accommodate my fat fingers.
Gboard is especially bad at this. If a word could in any conceivable way be capitalized, it will capitalize it.
Mine constantly pulls the bait and switch when I try to type "definitely". On the third letter, it will momentarily recommend "definitely", but after an instant, say, long enough to decide to tap the suggestion, it switches it to "Def", and because I tapped the suggestion, I have to go back and delete the whole word and start over
That def sounds annoying
Defiantly
With that, the Germans will have finally won /s
How do they decide Which of the words to Capitalize? Are there words that are the same words with different capitalization and they're different words?
Nouns
Generally if you can put an article in front of it you capitalise it
AnySoftKeyboard (which I prefer over Gboard because privacy and Free Software) is even worse at aggressively capitalizing.
Soon the globalists will lay claim to every word and we'll communicate with sentences composed 100% of proper noun brand-names owned by multinational corporations.
It always capitalizes Internet for me
Every few months I have to reset my dictionary. My phone will eventually decide that because I mostly use the words “hope” and “will” at the beginning of sentences, the correct spelling must be capitalized. Drives me nuts
Maybe it thinks you have two friends named Hope and Will
Long press on the wrong suggestion usually gives you an option to delete it from the dictionary.
True, but it's not like lower-case "expanse" is an unusual word. Any decent dictionary would know this.
It's more that your phone has one accidentally registered you typing it capitalized and remembered it as a "name", deleting that suggestion allows it to reverts to the non-capitalized version.
This is just one of many examples. If it's remembering a common English word like "expanse" as a name, then that's crappy design. If you check my other comments in this thread, you will find more examples of autocorrect fucking up.
Either way, it fits here. It's definitely infuriating when trying to express yourself in text, and perfectly normal words keep changing. And it's gotten noticeably worse, the "smarter" these apps try to be. Autocorrect on my Motorola Droid from a decade ago worked much better than the one on the Samsung phone I'm using now, because it didn't try to do the thinking part for me.
My phone does the opposite with lol. It refuses to capitalize it. lol.
I have a feeling mine did the same at one time. "The Expanse" was the topic of discussion in a discord server I'm in for a while, and I'm sure at that point I was forced to add the capitalized version so my phone would allow it. Instead of creating a separate entry so that both the capitalized and lower-case versions would be permitted, it must have "learned" that the word should always be capitalized, which is a mind-numbingly ineffectual way to do things.
I've now added "expanse" to the dictionary, so let's see: You should watch "The Expanse."
It works now, both ways! I know there are other perfectly normal words in keeps insisting are wrong though, and I'll only be able to fix them in the moment when I'm trying to express myself quickly. Oh, it used to capitalize "express" every time too because I once texted a friend from inside an Express store. Absolutely bonkers.
Thanks to this thread I have discovered openboard.
I really wish that I could use it. I try to use open source as much as I can, but the way it uses backspace to undo autocorrect is a big problem for me.
I should look into some other FOSS keyboards, though.
I really tried to like openboard but the way it hides the % key and the location of the / key drove me back to gboard
Don't even worry about it. It's only two or three taps to close the dialog box ad confirm that you wanted to close the dialog box. And it never happens more than once per word, I think.
I think you're missing the infuriating part. I deliberately expanded the dialog box to demonstrate that lower-case "expanse" did not exist in the dictionary. The dictionary had "learned" that "expanse" is solely a proper noun. That's the mildly infuriating part.
what does the checkmark do then
i just turbed that stuff off i let me jeyvoard rip rawww
Your butchered comment made me chuckle
Adds it to the dictionary
ah okay then, thank you for clarifying
The frustrating part is I think that's how this happened in the first place. I was discussing the show and must have added the capitalized word, and instead of just adding an entry, the app assumed I wanted to overwrite the normal form of "expanse." It's a pretty common English word, so I can't imagine it wasn't in there to begin with.
They also tend to believe compound words don't exist.
When is it correct to use compound words in english? In Swedish you can do compound words for anything at will. In English "flagpole" is its own word but "dirt farmer" isn't.
There is no rule. It’s just chaos. The dictionaries can’t even agree.
True there is no consistent rule, but generally the more a phrase is used, the more often it becomes a compound word
Welp! Better go convince some more people to become destitute agricultural workers so that the dictionary is less confusing to us Scandinavians!
My keyboard (Swiftkey) gets very excited about the possibilities when I start to hyphenate words to create compounds. It accepts that they exist, but it starts trying to throw all sorts of random suggestions in for what the second word could be (and it rarely gets the right word).
When you put it like that, it sounds very endearing 😄
How are you liking it otherwise? I'm looking for something that's neither Gboard nor the Samsung one..
Just install a different keyboard?
Do you have a recommendation for one that's better? I tried OpenBoard, but it's even more infuriating to me.
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