Facebook says Apple is too powerful – they're right

Re:Facebook says Apple is too powerful – they're right by Griffinsauce on Monday June 20, 2022 @12:23PM (#31812200)

This is practically helpful but asinine. The point is that these words are not "custom" or special, they should be handled like any other normal word.

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Re:Facebook says Apple is too powerful – they're right by jdminhbg on Monday June 20, 2022 @12:48PM (#31812541)

There are many words you would not want to send in a text to your coworkers, such as when you ask them to "re jigger the Q2 results." The only question is where the line is drawn for the OS to say "it's better that I never autocorrect into this perfectly real English word."

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Re:Facebook says Apple is too powerful – they're right by Griffinsauce on Thursday June 23, 2022 @11:47AM (#31850764)

Is the problem the specific word or the intention in your example?

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Re:Facebook says Apple is too powerful – they're right by bryanrasmussen on Monday June 20, 2022 @01:53PM (#31813345)

so typing an sms really quickly and having autocorrect decide that one of your misspelled words should probably be fuck just as you send it.

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Re:Facebook says Apple is too powerful – they're right by Griffinsauce on Thursday June 23, 2022 @11:48AM (#31850789)

So what? People on the other side should most likely see from context that it's not what you wanted to say.

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Re:Facebook says Apple is too powerful – they're right by pdimitar on Tuesday June 21, 2022 @02:29PM (#31827350)

Yes. Truly a world-ending possibility!

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Re:Facebook says Apple is too powerful – they're right by reaperducer on Monday June 20, 2022 @01:15PM (#31812876)

like any other normal word

But they're not normal words. They're expletives. If they have their own category, they're not "normal words."

iOS doesn't know a lot of the medical words I use for work, either. But I don't moan about it on social media.

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Re:Facebook says Apple is too powerful – they're right by xdennis on Monday June 20, 2022 @01:34PM (#31813104)

It makes sense to not include all medical words because technical jargon changes all the time, but common swear words are very old. The word "fuck" is more than a millennium old and every speaker would have understood you. It's not Tim Apple's business to determine what words people are allowed to use.

The idea that expletives are not normal words is wrong. Common people have always spoken plainly. They would not have called their asses "bottoms" etc.

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Re:Facebook says Apple is too powerful – they're right by adolph on Monday June 20, 2022 @02:36PM (#31813892)

> It's not Tim Apple's business to determine what words people are allowed to use.

Given that auto-correct is a function of software then yes, word selection is part of Apple's business. There are two parts to the solution. The technical aspect is probably not at issue. The socio-political component is going to reflect mainstream corporate culture and probably not meet many corner cases. The significant choices aren't Apple's to make sense they will bow to the anathema dictates of social and political power: such as Winnie the Poo in certain Chinese contexts or Swastikas in German ones.

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Re:Facebook says Apple is too powerful – they're right by mwilliaams on Monday June 20, 2022 @01:23PM (#31812967)

> have their own category

Like adjectives, nouns, verbs, adverbs, or any other of many word categories?

They are normal words understood by everybody, if not used by everybody, unlike your medical jargon.

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Re:Facebook says Apple is too powerful – they're right by robonerd on Monday June 20, 2022 @03:57PM (#31814998)

All words have their own categories. There are an innumerable number of categories you can put any word into. Give me a single word that can't be put into a special category; you can't do it.

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