Autocorrect is trying to make me look like I failed ninth-grade English.

I share your sense of annoyance at this very obvious stupidity but if you spend any time at all reading these threads, you'll soon realise that what some have called the "Return to Illiteracy" is proceeding apace.

Until the 19th century most people did not know how to read and write. Then there was a period of education for all and for a while, most people did know how to read and write, and so communicate with one another.

Now there's a noticeable falling-off in the standard of people's ability to communicate. Some think this is intentional. It also appears to have become a problem within large corporations like Apple, where the employees are no longer sure what's right and what's wrong.

Look at all the "there" and "their"s in these threads; the misplaced or missing apostrophes; and so on. Sometimes it's almost impossible to understand what the poster is trying to say!

I would tend to look at Education systems around the world and their inability to train our young (with the exception of China). These young people go on to develop such annoying little demons such as 'Auto-Correct'. Even just the difference in spelling between Western Countries is annoying. No localis(z)ation available.

Which is why I simply went to System Preferences > Keyboard > Text and unchecked 'Correct Spelling Automatically' and instead do a manual spell-check of documents. I don't believe it will ever be perfect for everybody. iOS is even worse!

Cheers

Pete

Autocorrect doesn't actually know what anything means, so nothing makes the slightest bit of sense to it.

Some programmer probably just thought that the phrase "here…and there" was common enough to look for it.

(And in that context, "Here is a list of X values and there [is a list of] corresponding Y values." might make a slight bit of sense.)

I once sat next to a young woman on a plane. No trace of an accent. No bad grammar. Nothing to suggest that she was native German, as were her parents. Simply impeccable English, and a marvel to this day.

petermac87 wrote:

I would tend to look at Education systems around the world and their inability to train our young (with the exception of China).

The USA ranks 49th in literacy worldwide, the UK is 48th, neither of them reach a standard worth aspiring to (The US has always been poor, but the UK has declined considerably) China is 99th, room for improvement.

Scandinavia shows well, shame on us for the mediocre placing.

Here's the table

Csound1 wrote:

petermac87 wrote:

I would tend to look at Education systems around the world and their inability to train our young (with the exception of China).

The USA ranks 49th in literacy worldwide, the UK is 48th, neither of them reach a standard worth aspiring to (The US has always been poor, but the UK has declined considerably) China is 99th, room for improvement.

Scandinavia shows well, shame on us for the mediocre placing.

Here's the table

Thanks for that. So, my native Australia by far outranks Tom's England both in literacy and Cricket. Good to see! 😉

It's a sad indictment on modern society, though. The evidence is their to sea.

Cheers

Pete

Doesn't everyone else play Cricket better than England, I slept through many an afternoon at Lords (spilled my Pink Gin more than once) so stultifying was the game:

petermac87 wrote:

The evidence is their to sea.

Quick, fix that before someone notices 🙂