googledocs you are getting awfully uppity for something that can’t differentiate between “its” and “it’s” correctly
oho and now you’re questioning my adverb usage? you? you?
you fucking dare?
you try to change ‘tears’ to ‘years’ for no reason but don’t catch ‘imporint’???
hey quick question gdocs
what the fuck
1. how the fuck did this post become so popular
2. everyone just commenting ‘QUERCHED’ is delightful
3. some people have suggested i use grammarly. this is letting the robots win and also would deprive me of the opportunity to complain about insignificant technical things instead of just wanting to scream over writing all the time
4. i use googledocs because i want access to my writing on multiple platforms and also because fuck microsoft
5. the difference between [its] and [it’s] is that [it’s] is always used as a shortened form of [it is] and [its] is used as the possessive of [it]. yes, this goes against the usual practice of just tacking on an [‘s] when you want to indicate ownership. yes, english is absolutely a trash language.
btw, gdoc’s most recent transgression:
noooope
LITERALLY THE EXACT OPPOSITE MEANING OF WHAT I WANT, GDOCS
i’m sorry what kind of AI FUCKERY is going on here that you are trying to ADD IN ADVERBS FOR ME that could ENTIRELY CHANGE THE TONE from a neutral ‘He’d been young’ to something that would put emphasis on just how young he was and how long ago it was you cannot just THROW EXTRA WORDS IN LIKE THAT
‘he’d been so young’ I’LL FUCKING KILL YOU
OH MY FUCKING GOD ARE YOU SERIOUS
me @ everyone else using googledocs:
YOU
I just listened to a podcast with an A.I. research scientist. She said if you wouldn’t trust autocorrect to be in charge of a decision, then you shouldn’t trust another A.I. with it, so… that’s something to worry about
Grammarly is not better.
querched
If you were thinking learning to proofread wasn’t actually helpful…
If you were thinking
learning to proofread wasn’t
actually helpful…
Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.
1997 word spellchecker worked just fine…
I still remember when Word 2007 used to change “all my fault” to “my entire fault”, and that was probably responsible for half of the hundreds of dramatic ship fics on ff.net having a girl yell “It’s my entire fault!”
DEMOCRDOES IN DARKNESS!
spread the truth
…seriously though these things do affect real world usage of language. i remember when the most common misspelling of “definitely” was “definately.” and the spellcheck of the time had an actual dictionary instead of being trained on everyone’s common mostly-wrong usage, so the way it handled this was to pick what it thought was the closest real dictionary word
which was– you guessed it– “defiantly”
AND NOW guess what is NOW the most common misspelling of “definitely.” so bad that whenever I want to ACTUALLY type about something being done “defiantly” I have to watch my spellcheck with a loaded gun aimed at it
