WEEEKLY CHAT - WEEK 49!
WEEKLY CHAT #49
OK, let's try the weekly chat idea, V2. Been hearing some positive comments! Seems like we have a winner! Give it a chance! Here goes! <3
Autocorrect is just straight up weird, honestly.
Someone once posted a little tidbit how they suspected, maybe, autocorrect was intentionally dumbing down speech. As someone with a high vocabulary, I've noticed it often struggles with "big words". Whether that's intentional is debatable (probably not...), but in practice it definitely adds hurdles.
You make a great point. I believe auto correct, predictive text, etc is not helpful for us in the long run. I've never been a good speller. I rebelled in school and just didn't care. Even as a kid in grammar school. I hate to put blame on anyone but me but my mom was did more harm than good trying to help us with homework. That combined with things at home learning was the last thing on my mind. Now I regret it. I really need to turn off auto correct and predictive text. I don't work so I haven't typed in years until coming here. Now I've noticed I can't spell words I actually did learn.
I think they are trying to dumb us down in so many ways! Especially the younger generation still in school and those just getting out the last five years. I don't remember who I was watching they said, "in the 60s and before people graduated knowing English. At some point in time you had to take English in college. I always thought how stupid it was to take English after being in school 12 years learning English. We all know the brainless sheep to control so it's not surprising.