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Showerthoughts

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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. A showerthought should offer a unique perspective on an ordinary part of life.

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[–] ngz@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I haven't been here much since I joined last week, but one thing I noticed is I've barely seen any typos on Lemmy. While I definitely don't mind seeing the occasional typo, the number of spelling mistakes was getting annoying, and it's gotten progressively worse over the last year or so.

[–] Demigod787@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (5 children)

How do you even make any typos with all the autocorrect nowadays is beyond me.

[–] StarManta@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Autocorrect is the cause of many of my typos

[–] DarkDarkHouse@lemmy.sdf.org 9 points 1 year ago

Autocorrect catches all my typos, and for that I’m eternally grapefruit

[–] GONADS125@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

My autocorrect on my Galaxy s22+ is actually a detriment to me... It constantly changes "me" to "Mr" or "MT" and dumb shit like that.. I spend more time correcting 'autocorrects' than typing text.. Why is it so bad suddenly??

[–] phamanhvu01@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I personally don't use auto correct for a couple reason, so typos still happen from time to time.

[–] JesusTheCarpenter@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

What are the reasons if you don't mind me asking? I write in 3 languages on the same mobile keyboard and it does a fantastic job correcting my spelling.

[–] Gabu@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

In my experience as a fellow polyglot, Google's autocorrection is good most of the time, and horribly unusable once in a while. At one point it attempted to correct every single word in a sentence.

[–] Piers@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

As someone with dyslexia I definitely still find a way sometimes.

[–] skillissuer@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

it's simpler when you use speech to text, or use autocorrect dictionary of wrong language

[–] daan@lemmy.vanoverloop.xyz 4 points 1 year ago

I think people here might be more conscious of what they post, due to the relatively low quantity of things being posted here. On larger platforms, what you write is more likely to be overlooked, so people care less.

Ya bro u damn rite finalysumeonre has the guts to say it. I hope dis comunity stay crispy

My pet peeve is when people put a space before the full stop or the exclamation mark. Something like this !