Hi AutoCorrect! How’s it going today? Got a sec? Can you do me a favor?
If you ever catch me typing the letter “u” on its own it was definitely a typo, 100%, and could you just go ahead and make it a capital “I” for me?
So if you catch me writing, for example…
u don’t know
…could you toss me an…
I don’t know
We have the flippin’ technology to fix literally my most common typo, but catering to those folks means AutoCorrect has to stay broken. These people—who in all likelihood are decent humans who don’t eat babies—are the reason that phone keyboards can’t fix this very obvious typo for me.
Look, I’m not even trying to inflict my good-spellin’ lifestyle on everybody else, honest. Make it a toggle. “🗹 I graduated second grade.”
I eagerly await this important innovation.
On the flip side, my AutoCorrect keeps going a bit too far in changing “were” to “we’re” no matter what the context.
Mine has actually been doing the opposite to me lately. Otto is so dumb.