It's been a surreal week
One good thing has come out of a full week of with a migraine, and that's the following conversation in an email. All of this was in an email I sent as part of a conversation with the ever-patient laridian.
[Also, weirdest'autocorrectmever: "he" became "phenomenon." All I put was "he," but it took me so many tries to get that instead of gibberish that autocorrect decided to guarantee what longer word I had been trying to write.]
[...Guess. Not guarantee. Woo, autocorrect! It's actually making this more comprehensible overall. Which is kind of scary.]
Yes, that was all written with the benefit of autocorrect. And in my previous email, it had indeed autocorrected "he" to read "phenomenon," for exactly the reason I stated.
It used to be that as I got used to a new technology, I would figure out the underlying algorithm and be able to use that understanding to my advantage (so that, for example, I would be able to make shortcuts for things I actually wanted to write by knowing which "incorrect" words would autocorrect to be the ones I wanted; not something that I've ever done consistently with this particular technology, but I did analogous things with other technologies for years. But now, they're updating these programs faster than I can adapt my habits to take advantage of technological inefficiencies. By trying to make autocorrect better at guessing what I "meant" to type, they are making it a less efficient tool for my use.
But turning "he" (which was correctly typed before I went on to the next word. I checked) into "phenomenon" is still the funniest thing that happened to me all week.
[Also, weirdest'autocorrectmever: "he" became "phenomenon." All I put was "he," but it took me so many tries to get that instead of gibberish that autocorrect decided to guarantee what longer word I had been trying to write.]
[...Guess. Not guarantee. Woo, autocorrect! It's actually making this more comprehensible overall. Which is kind of scary.]
Yes, that was all written with the benefit of autocorrect. And in my previous email, it had indeed autocorrected "he" to read "phenomenon," for exactly the reason I stated.
It used to be that as I got used to a new technology, I would figure out the underlying algorithm and be able to use that understanding to my advantage (so that, for example, I would be able to make shortcuts for things I actually wanted to write by knowing which "incorrect" words would autocorrect to be the ones I wanted; not something that I've ever done consistently with this particular technology, but I did analogous things with other technologies for years. But now, they're updating these programs faster than I can adapt my habits to take advantage of technological inefficiencies. By trying to make autocorrect better at guessing what I "meant" to type, they are making it a less efficient tool for my use.
But turning "he" (which was correctly typed before I went on to the next word. I checked) into "phenomenon" is still the funniest thing that happened to me all week.