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Re:Swype pioneered a new way to type on smartphones–now it’s... by Sylos on Wednesday February 21, 2018 @11:25PM (#16435133)
Different people have different tastes. I'm the type of person, who's even turned off autocorrect on my phone, because that already gets on my nerves when I type a word that it doesn't know and then it "corrects" it to a different word.

Also in particular annoying when I go back and forth between two languages. Then I have to switch language on my keyboard every other time I want to type anything. And I have to get used to the different layout, which with swiping seems to be even more annoying.

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Re:Swype pioneered a new way to type on smartphones–now it’s... by cmarinas on Thursday February 22, 2018 @10:36AM (#16438230)
I turned off autocorrect on my wife's phone as her messages didn't make sense ;) (not bothering to check the autocorrected words).

As for multi-language, SwiftKey seems pretty good, you don't need to switch between languages, it handles two (maybe three) at the same time relatively well.

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