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Re: Ducking an iPhone Annoyance

Netreview — Tue, 30 Nov 2010 02:34:05 -0000

Yes! What about "poes" ??? It autocorrects that to "pies"! As in: "You ducking pies!" Hahahaha....

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Steve Nelson — Tue, 16 Nov 2010 01:23:57 -0000

Prufock your comment is long and pedantic. The best part is I think you did it ironically for your name is letters away from being a profuck. And for that I thank you for the laugh : )

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Timnorman1 — Mon, 18 Oct 2010 09:26:51 -0000

My name is 'Tim', and it keeps getting corrected to 'Tom'. Given I use my name a lot in any day and I've had the phone for a while, and it still hasn't leaned ...just how long does it take?

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CRW TX — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 16:37:35 -0000

Good post. I think the point here, for me anyway, is that, despite whatever one might think about profanity and its role in human discourse, I don't need my ducking iPhone to tell me what words are appropriate or not.

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iPhone — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 20:49:39 -0000

haha briilliant little tip.
There's been a few mishaps I've noticed when sending less than amused texts to people.

Thanks for this

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Podesta's Mum — Fri, 08 May 2009 05:55:47 -0000

"Podesta 12.05.08 at 9:20 am
Mulder makes people on this thread look like mental midgets."

Both Shakespeare and Joyce used the word 'cunt'. You're none too bright are you Pederasta?

Re: Ducking an iPhone Annoyance

Brian Dillard — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 12:37:07 -0000

Interesting. I tweeted about this very same solution a few months ago. I, too, was impatient with the iPhone's ability to "learn" words. Appreciate your explanation of how the weighting algorithm actually works, but I think the algorithm sucks. If I ignore a correction once, it should stop making that correction. Why would the autocomplete accept its own wisdom over mine until I've told it x number of times that I know what I want it to type better than it knows. I got so sick of the thing mangling nicknames of my friends that I turned autocorrect off altogether as soon as I had the ability to do so.

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Stefan — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 05:54:34 -0000

To Greg, typing in different languages.

You can actually use multiple languages, each with it's own dictionary.
I have English, Finnish and Swedish "keyboards" in use. And it's extremely easy to change between them.
Simply click on the globe button to the left of the space "bar".

Interesting blog and a duckingly interesting discussion.

Re: Ducking an iPhone Annoyance

flea — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 08:51:23 -0000

what about yo?

like... yo.. what are you doing?

i don't want "to" or "you"... i want it to say yo. ducking pain in the arse.

{Ed. - then add "yo" as a name somewhere. iPhone won't offer 'yo' but it will stop changing it on you - @luomat}

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writewingproxycontin — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 22:38:54 -0000

Harvard psychology professor Steven Pinker tells us the meaning of the word "fucked" has itself been fucked up over the years, but the real question is, "Does he use an iPhone?"

(He was delivering his obscenity focused lecture at Univ. of Pennsylvania's Dean's Lecture and inadvertently activated his laptop's screensaver mid-presentation. He said, and I quote, "Oops." I wanted to ask during Q&A if by this ejaculation he was fucking with our minds.)

"Linguists such as Pinker have pondered on the unusual grammatical properties of the word 'fucking' in sentences such as 'drown the fucking cat....'"

pinker . wjh . harvard . edu

Re: Ducking an iPhone Annoyance

Mike Kirby — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 22:10:16 -0000

I just want to enjoy the opportunity to post this on a reputable blog and not have my post removed:

FUCK. YOU FUCKING FUCKS. FUCKIN' FUCK! YOU'RE FUCKED!

Ahhhh. Thanks, that felt good!

By the way, Prufuck, uh, frock, you are the most skilled troll I believe I have ever fucking seen. You actually fucking had me for a moment.

{Let's not go too nuts here, people, my mom might read this. -- TjL}

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M.R. in L.A. — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 20:08:02 -0000

John 12.05.08 at 6:18 am
"What about “c*nt”. How come my iphone doesn’t try to autocorrect c*nt?"

John, clearly you must have some c*nt listed in your contacts =)

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Beejamin — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 19:28:22 -0000

There's a gmail account at iphone.filth@gmail.com - password, 'slutmonkey' - there's variations on the top 25 english profanities for your delight, plus some other curly ones I've found useful over the years. Feel free to add your own - if you keep the contact sync'd, you should be able to inherit everyone's additions automatically.

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map — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 16:20:56 -0000

So now: Duck you! may be translated as: Hijo de Pato!.
:)

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Paulie — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 14:38:06 -0000

Awesome, thanks for the blog about this ducking problem. I've got it all fixed.

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Manager — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 13:41:48 -0000

Mulder: There is absolutely nothing wrong with saying the word "fuck". As others have pointed out, it is a word that, when used in the right context, will absolutely, without question, be effective in your efforts to communicate properly. There is no excuse today, to not accept "fuck" as a standard part of modern speech, in our modern society. Language and cultures adapt, so should you. Doing otherwise, and putting the rest of us down for using a normal, everyday word, only shows you are a old-fashioned prude.

I routinely use "fuck" in business meetings and in the middle of presentations to customers, even at large conferences. There is nothing wrong with this word and, quite frankly, using it in a proper context allows me to bond better with my colleagues and customers. I have been very successful in my career, mainly because I am not afraid to keep up with the times.

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AndrewGoldy — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 12:25:18 -0000

What about "poes" ??? It autocorrects that to "pies"! As in: "You ducking pies!" Hahahaha....

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RangerD — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 12:09:01 -0000

I think that the venerable duck is tired of smimming in pretty waters and wants to get its virginal little feathers dirty in the fast and gritty vernacular of rich linguistic experience. It wants to insert itself - and has a plan, and so we should help the duck swim leather-clad through the Styx-like waters of underground vernacular.
"Duck" can be the new fuck. We can duck out back with our spouse or lover. Don't like the car? Sell the ducking thing - ain't worth a quack anyway and you can't afford those bills! Who gives a duck? Duck you! Duck me! Duck a duck! Docking ship...

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ryan — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 11:25:23 -0000

Don't know if we have any New Yorkers here...but FAR more annoying than "ducking" is the change of "ny" to "by" when you go to do a search in Safari for a restaurant phone number, or whatever.

I'm trying mth785's solution...if it's as easy as a Note in that app, that's fantastic.

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Sun, 07 Dec 2008 11:08:05 -0000

If you'd like to add words to the dictionary just create a contact, say Custom Dictionary, and add as many words as you like in the "Notes" field. In this manner, you now have a repository of words in one place. This works quite nicely.

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kvn — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 10:17:02 -0000

Only two things to say.
Thanks for the tip but I just use the 'x' to get rid of the suggested word from the iPhone.
And for fucks sake, give me a fuckin break. If you want to swear that's your own prerogative . And if you don't then happy fuckin days.

Merry Christmas

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Bhuto — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 07:28:06 -0000

If you need to use different languages with your iPhone: you can add multiple keyboards and switch between them while you are typing.
(to setp up go to preferences and the general view and then keyboard) and then just activate the keyboards (languages) you need.

Re: Ducking an iPhone Annoyance

scott — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 18:42:06 -0000

ever since upgrading to 2.2 my phone has started remembering fuck.... i never get the duck anymore and i can even misspell it and it auto corrects to fuck... bitch and pussy also work well..

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Duckhead — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 13:41:10 -0000

Thanks for posting that video link, dave!

It had special meaning to me, because I was the guy who did that (put in the word censorship), at least for one rather large company.

It's hard to share any insights about the experience without sounding defensive, so I'll just sound defensive and not worry about it. I hated doing it, yet did it on my own initiative. I understood that within the big corporate context it was appropriate to have our product refrain from putting an unexpectedly alarming word in a user's face when the product was not 100% certain that this was their intended word. When building a product, you have to understand that the average consumer is not you.

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Stevie — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 08:26:22 -0000

@Christopher The tip listed in your link at duckingiphone.com only works for a very limited amount of time, I know because I've tried it multiple times, yet the iPhone keeps wanting to correct me. This is more of a permanent solution.

Another upside to this solution is that if you ever have to restore your phone and not restore from your backup, you can sync your contacts to your newly restored iPhone and then start cursing away without annoyances or training necessary.

Thanks a lot for this tip, and thanks to DaringFireball for linking to it!