Flurking spearchucker
Sheri texteth not, yet the punishment of the damned is regularly visited upon her:
I use my iPhone a LOT for TWEETING, using various Twitter apps. And every time I type the word HELL in, iPhone changes my HELL to HE’LL. Which irritates the living shit out of me. I type the word HELL maybe 100 times a day. Or I want to.
Not only does the auto-correct change it to “he’ll” but even when I backspace over it and make it HELL — HELL, GODDAMN IT, HELL! — it still won’t “stick.” Sometimes I try several times, thinking it will “learn” to accept that I like HELL. It never does.
And apparently you can’t just add the word to the dictionary, the way you can with EVERY OTHER GODDAMN APPLICATION ON THE PLANET. (I’m typing this in Firefox 3.6.8; in addition to the lame substitutions like “siphon” and “Haiphong,” there is, by the Power of Mozilla, an “Add to Dictionary” function, and “iPhone” is now recognized.)
Perhaps she should text Steve Jobs. Hell fix it.
sheri »
29 July 2010 · 8:04 am
The he’ll he will.
fillyjonk »
29 July 2010 · 9:03 am
Wow, that’s the last application I’d expect to come with a built in auto-censor. I wonder if it turns other words to “shoot” and “duck.”
ak4mc »
29 July 2010 · 10:07 am
Auto-correct in texting? It iz 2 lol.
Dwayne "the canoe guy" »
29 July 2010 · 1:00 pm
Turn off auto-correction. DUR!!
Tatyana »
31 July 2010 · 8:39 am
Ditto, Dwayne.
My son makes fun of my slow as HELL texting, but that’s because I’m not a slave to the Big Brothers and I turn off the T9Eab!