Comments on: Fun with the iPhone spell checker http://www.morearty.com/blog/2009/01/05/fun-with-the-iphone-spell-checker/ Mike Morearty's blog Tue, 24 Jan 2012 05:31:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Juan http://www.morearty.com/blog/2009/01/05/fun-with-the-iphone-spell-checker/comment-page-1/#comment-63672 Juan Wed, 18 May 2011 12:58:56 +0000 http://www.morearty.com/blog/?p=184#comment-63672 <p>I switched it off at all and using online spellchecker: http://www.spellchecker.net/spellcheck/ Thanks God that iOS 3.0 and higher has copy and paste support.</p> I switched it off at all and using online spellchecker: http://www.spellchecker.net/spellcheck/ Thanks God that iOS 3.0 and higher has copy and paste support.

]]> By: Ollie http://www.morearty.com/blog/2009/01/05/fun-with-the-iphone-spell-checker/comment-page-1/#comment-63110 Ollie Thu, 26 Aug 2010 01:50:50 +0000 http://www.morearty.com/blog/?p=184#comment-63110 <p>I am violently allergic to the idiotic iPhone spelling Nazi. Does the programmer not know the difference between "it's" and "its"? Do they not know they are 2 separate words with very different meanings which cannot be used interchangeably? Here's a thought: why don't they employ someone with proper grammar to build the spell-check module.</p> <p>Furthermore, not everyone speaks "American-English". In fact, I dare say only Americans speak American-English. So why then does my stupid iPhone insist on turning my colour into color, and my neighbour into neighbor? Or my magnetised into magnetized?</p> <p>And why is that that it learns my misspelled words in a heart beat (clock cycle?), and continually suggests them in error, yet no matter how hard I try, I simply cannot teach it any swear words?!</p> <p>I think it should be "tap to accept suggestion", not "tap to reject". I'm sick of typing away correctly, and half of what I have carefully typed gets changed to something totally wrong. It really makes my blood boil!</p> I am violently allergic to the idiotic iPhone spelling Nazi. Does the programmer not know the difference between "it's" and "its"? Do they not know they are 2 separate words with very different meanings which cannot be used interchangeably? Here's a thought: why don't they employ someone with proper grammar to build the spell-check module.

Furthermore, not everyone speaks "American-English". In fact, I dare say only Americans speak American-English. So why then does my stupid iPhone insist on turning my colour into color, and my neighbour into neighbor? Or my magnetised into magnetized?

And why is that that it learns my misspelled words in a heart beat (clock cycle?), and continually suggests them in error, yet no matter how hard I try, I simply cannot teach it any swear words?!

I think it should be "tap to accept suggestion", not "tap to reject". I'm sick of typing away correctly, and half of what I have carefully typed gets changed to something totally wrong. It really makes my blood boil!

]]> By: Tom http://www.morearty.com/blog/2009/01/05/fun-with-the-iphone-spell-checker/comment-page-1/#comment-60890 Tom Thu, 13 Aug 2009 21:56:56 +0000 http://www.morearty.com/blog/?p=184#comment-60890 <p>If you type four o's "oooo" it suggests "poop"!</p> If you type four o's "oooo" it suggests "poop"!

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.morearty.com/blog/2009/01/05/fun-with-the-iphone-spell-checker/comment-page-1/#comment-60467 Anonymous Fri, 19 Jun 2009 22:49:52 +0000 http://www.morearty.com/blog/?p=184#comment-60467 <p>you can hit the x next to the suggested word and it will ignore it</p> you can hit the x next to the suggested word and it will ignore it

]]> By: Corey http://www.morearty.com/blog/2009/01/05/fun-with-the-iphone-spell-checker/comment-page-1/#comment-59785 Corey Sat, 16 May 2009 02:01:18 +0000 http://www.morearty.com/blog/?p=184#comment-59785 <p>Woah dude. I thought you were the pro skater mike-mo capaldi</p> Woah dude. I thought you were the pro skater mike-mo capaldi

]]> By: Rob http://www.morearty.com/blog/2009/01/05/fun-with-the-iphone-spell-checker/comment-page-1/#comment-54103 Rob Wed, 07 Jan 2009 17:24:51 +0000 http://www.morearty.com/blog/?p=184#comment-54103 <p>I was trying to send myself an email of the relevant portions of a conversation I had with a guy named "Ed."</p> <p>The iPhone kept changing his name to "Wed."</p> <p>I ended up changing the name to "Edward" and moved on.</p> I was trying to send myself an email of the relevant portions of a conversation I had with a guy named "Ed."

The iPhone kept changing his name to "Wed."

I ended up changing the name to "Edward" and moved on.

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