Auto-correct and how to overdo it

[oloriel]

In amusing news, I wasn't aware that the new OpenOffice writer collected words from all documents you open in it. And then tries to be helpful by recognising the letters as you type, and suggesting auto-completion options based on the words collected throughout your previous typing. (A horrible feature, I have no idea why people would want their writing program to do that, how is that supposed to help anyone? But fortunately I found out how to deactivate it.)

Anyway -- the first documents I opened were a couple of fanfics for B2MeM, and a Quenya/English wordlist.

No, Writer, I actually meant to write "that", not "Thargelion". And "car", not "Carnistir". Thanks for trying, I guess, but... no. (And the auto-completion list reads... interestingly. Very interestingly. Good that I'm the only one who uses this computer.)

This is almost as bad as the over-helpful Office paperclip. Just more funny. Bzuh.

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[naurring.livejournal.com]

That's only one of OpenOffices horrible features. I can't stand it. XD They keep telling us at uni that it's the most awsome thing ever and that we have to do it, but I'm sticking to Word. (Yeah, I realize that one's not without problems, too. XD)

And lol. I can vividly imagine that auto-completion list.

It's kind of a scary feature, too. I'm just imagining writing an essay for university to turn in and not noticing that it has completed or changed (I've seen it do that too. Awful.) your word and suddenly I have words in there I'd use in a slash fanfic - but which certainly shouldn't be in university work at all. XD

[oloriel.livejournal.com]

Word's auto-correction is no better when it comes to uni stuff, though. Do you know how much of a pest that is when you're writing essays on Middle English and it keeps correcting your quotes to the modern standard? And you don't always notice it at once and then you have to un-correct it all later. If you catch it then. A bloody pain, that. And I still believe that it doesn't in the long run help people if they don't have to pay attention to their fucking spelling themselves, ARRRRR!

The good thing is: You can deactivate that, too. Just as you can do in OpenOffice, so this "feature" isn't really an argument against either program. (I'm mostly just using OO because it's free and I don't want to use some illegal Office version and I used up my cheap student licence on the old computer :(. So I don't have any strong feelings on the issues either way.)
As for the slash vocabulary: Ts ts ts, who isn't proofreading her university work? ;)

[naurring.livejournal.com]

Of course I'm proofreading. :P But knowing my luck, it'd be the one word that would slip my attention. And if I read it ten times. I usually have bad luck like that. XD

My uncle has a Word pack and let me use an installation, so it didn't really cost me anything, either, and like that I much prefer it to OO.

But yeah, the language issues in Word are most annoying. Most of the time it is a fight to make it accept the language of the document (as I'm always writing stories in English) as UK English. It keeps setting it back to US English all the time. Just ARGH! Or it'll just randomly offer you corrections in Swedish. One time it suddenly decided I was writing in Swahili. XD

[oloriel.livejournal.com]

I was terrified of that happening when I wrote my thesis! Despite the efforts of several proofreaders, to the end I was scared that "Fëanor" or something of the sort would make an appearance. *rolls eyes at self*

Heh, I'd definitely prefer it like that, too!

Hah! I've never had that happen! XD

[allamistako.livejournal.com]

You can turn that off? Cool - where? It's the only thing I don't like about OOW

[oloriel.livejournal.com]

Extras -> AutoKorrektur-Optionen. Reiter "Wortergänzung" anklicken, da die Kästchen "Wortergänzung aktivieren" und "Wörter sammeln" abwählen. Frag mich nich, wie's im Englischen heißt ;)

[ladyelleth.livejournal.com]

Haha, that's on the same level of funny as Damn you, Autocorrect (http://damnyouautocorrect.com/), just far more nerdily glorious. (But careful, that site is ridiculously addictive.) ;)

[oloriel.livejournal.com]

BWAAAAHAHAHAHAH!
Ich sag ja immer, wer nicht Korrektur liest, ist selber schuld. XD