Where did that duck come from?

[jorhett]

I use Android phones and the fastest way for me to enter text is to Swype or Flow the words. This is where you press the first key then swype your finger from one letter to another without picking up your finger. It was incredibly fast way to enter text…until keyboards decided that predicting your words is so important that you can’t turn it off.

It is perhaps understandable that when I swype F-I-X-E-S that it might insert F-O-X-E-S. I’m really not prone to talk about foxes, but I understand that guess.

I completely fail to understand when I swype my fingers through T-U-R-N-S and get F-I-R-M-S. Those letters aren’t close. No, my fingers weren’t inaccurate. Yes, I really meant turns. Worse yet is that turns is a valid English word, is found in the keyboard’s dictionary, but is not in the list of suggestions.

Samsung, Google, Swype, SwiftKey: Trust me. I swyped exactly what I meant. You can suggest something else but please insert the word I swyped. Not what you think I meant. Because I really, truly, never write sentences on my phone containing duck.

You can read the original article at http://www.netconsonance.com/2014/10/where-did-that-duck-come-from/. Comments are welcome here or there as you please.

Comments

[ladycelia.livejournal.com]

I sometimes find myself accidentally using the Swype/Flow systems instead of just typing words. And even when I'm just typing, the damned phone keeps suggesting ridiculous substitutions. Drives me crazy.

you can disable flow/swype

[jorhett.livejournal.com]

if you don't like swype/flow you can disable it with every keyboard I've seen.

I can't survive without it. It was the only thing that make it plausible for me to give up on the (disappearing) physical keyboards.

Re: you can disable flow/swype

[ladycelia.livejournal.com]

Ah--I'll dig around and see if I can find the setting to disable it. I really, really miss my Blackberry keyboard and my Palm stylus. I was good with those.