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Can we all agree that whatever version of predictive text we have nowadays is crap, and has been for a long time? (lemmy.world)
submitted 6 months ago by HonoraryMancunian@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world
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I'm sick of random capitalisations mid sentence. I'm sick of common words being replaced by less common ones or even downright nonsense. I'm sick of it taking three attempts to successfully get the word I want. I swear it's been like this for five years or more. Can we have a better version yet, or at least the old one back?

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[–] cosmicrookie@lemmy.world 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Especially as multilingual it is a mess! It didn't use to be this bad!

[–] ArdMacha@lemmy.world 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

It's worse when you are not multilingual! I am in Ireland and keep getting Spanish words predicted. I am not in Spain or California, why?

[–] cosmicrookie@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Dude... i've been thinking about your reply here a lot since you made it, and trying to understand. Why is it worse for you than for multilingual users?

Its not like i can use Spanish suggestions better than you just because i speak more than 1 language.

I dont even speak Spanish but even if i did, i couldn't use the Spanish suggestions when writing English or any other language

[–] ArdMacha@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago

Neither can I.