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OT - dropped letters while typing

DiomedeDiomede Posts: 15,410
in The Commons

For some reason, my posts are often missing letters that I know I typed.  Is this happening to anyone else?  I have to go back and fix phantom typos.

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  • TaozTaoz Posts: 10,300

    Only in this forum?

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 42,138

    ...I've had that occur too.  Makes for a mess on the floor afterwards (ouch, just stepped on an "x"). 

  • AtiAti Posts: 9,193

    It doesn't solve your issue, but spellchecking underlines unrecognized words, making it easier to spot missed letters before posting.

  • McGyverMcGyver Posts: 7,097

    On a tablet or computer?  I frequently bemoan iPad changing stuff after its accepted it... Like I'll type "there are several places that mention it" and see the text go up on the screen, but two or three words later the text will shift to the left or right all of a sudden and the sentence will say "there are several places Kent and on it"... I frequently see it weirdly mess up words, but refuse to repeat the mistake... It's especially odd when I'm not sure about the word, it doesn't know it so I look it up, knowing I don't know the correct spelling, spell it correctly, then see it changed to nonsense... I'll even look up the nonsense word to see if it exists and 99.999999% of the time it doesn't.

    At first I thought it had something to do with web use, but as started to use the iPad for story writing more, it became obvious it was some autocorrect wonkiness.. (Just did it now... "wonkiens snff")...(snff?... WTH?)

    Whatever weirdness is going on there, it might be some version of that... 

     

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 42,138

    ...however, it doesn't flag typos in words less than four characters such as "and", "the" "use", "for","out" etc which are commonly mis-typed.  It is also a bother as the forum software overrides FF spell check, and you have to remember to turn it on each time you post.

  • AtiAti Posts: 9,193
    kyoto kid said:

    ...however, it doesn't flag typos in words less than four characters such as "and", "the" "use", "for","out" etc which are commonly mis-typed.  It is also a bother as the forum software overrides FF spell check, and you have to remember to turn it on each time you post.

    Reenable the browser spellchecker, that will show the underlines as usual. The only difference is because of the fancy text editor on the forum, you need to control+right click to get the suggestions, instead of the simple right click.

  • kaotkblisskaotkbliss Posts: 2,918
    McGyver said:

    On a tablet or computer?  I frequently bemoan iPad changing stuff after its accepted it... Like I'll type "there are several places that mention it" and see the text go up on the screen, but two or three words later the text will shift to the left or right all of a sudden and the sentence will say "there are several places Kent and on it"... I frequently see it weirdly mess up words, but refuse to repeat the mistake... It's especially odd when I'm not sure about the word, it doesn't know it so I look it up, knowing I don't know the correct spelling, spell it correctly, then see it changed to nonsense... I'll even look up the nonsense word to see if it exists and 99.999999% of the time it doesn't.

    At first I thought it had something to do with web use, but as started to use the iPad for story writing more, it became obvious it was some autocorrect wonkiness.. (Just did it now... "wonkiens snff")...(snff?... WTH?)

    Whatever weirdness is going on there, it might be some version of that... 

     

    Apple and the like probably have algorithms in place that gather "unknown" words from every source (chats, texts, searches, posts, etc.) and get their top suggestions from the top % of what people actually correct it to or select as the correct spelling. And I fear the more txt spk grows, the more snff words will pop up as suggested auto-corrects.

    Pretty soon, real words and sentences will be replaced by a series of acronyms, short spellings, numbers, etc.

    ksdg iuif 4 slld, c?

    doh!

  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 109,564
    Ati said:
    kyoto kid said:

    ...however, it doesn't flag typos in words less than four characters such as "and", "the" "use", "for","out" etc which are commonly mis-typed.  It is also a bother as the forum software overrides FF spell check, and you have to remember to turn it on each time you post.

    Reenable the browser spellchecker, that will show the underlines as usual. The only difference is because of the fancy text editor on the forum, you need to control+right click to get the suggestions, instead of the simple right click.

    How do I do that? I usually (on the rare occasions I do anything) switch to Source mode to check for typos.

  • AtiAti Posts: 9,193
    Richard Haseltine said:
    Ati said:
    kyoto kid said:

    ...however, it doesn't flag typos in words less than four characters such as "and", "the" "use", "for","out" etc which are commonly mis-typed.  It is also a bother as the forum software overrides FF spell check, and you have to remember to turn it on each time you post.

    Reenable the browser spellchecker, that will show the underlines as usual. The only difference is because of the fancy text editor on the forum, you need to control+right click to get the suggestions, instead of the simple right click.

    How do I do that? I usually (on the rare occasions I do anything) switch to Source mode to check for typos.

    Add this single javascript line to the page:

    CKEDITOR.config.disableNativeSpellChecker = false;

    I use tampermonkey to insert this line, but you can use any other method you like.

    The "enable browser spellchecking" script on my page does this if you want a fast solution. Link in signature.

  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 109,564

    Ah, I see - thank you.

  • namffuaknamffuak Posts: 4,468

    I get dropped letters on the forums - and I'm seeing a lot from other posters as well. Not sure what is happening, because I don't have the same problem in other text applications.

  • AnotherUserNameAnotherUserName Posts: 2,727

    I always tend to notice that there are more letters than I intended to type... sad

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 42,138
    Ati said:
    Richard Haseltine said:
    Ati said:
    kyoto kid said:

    ...however, it doesn't flag typos in words less than four characters such as "and", "the" "use", "for","out" etc which are commonly mis-typed.  It is also a bother as the forum software overrides FF spell check, and you have to remember to turn it on each time you post.

    Reenable the browser spellchecker, that will show the underlines as usual. The only difference is because of the fancy text editor on the forum, you need to control+right click to get the suggestions, instead of the simple right click.

    How do I do that? I usually (on the rare occasions I do anything) switch to Source mode to check for typos.

    Add this single javascript line to the page:

    CKEDITOR.config.disableNativeSpellChecker = false;

    I use tampermonkey to insert this line, but you can use any other method you like.

    The "enable browser spellchecking" script on my page does this if you want a fast solution. Link in signature.

    ...how and where?

  • AtiAti Posts: 9,193
    kyoto kid said:
    Ati said:
    Richard Haseltine said:
    Ati said:
    kyoto kid said:

    ...however, it doesn't flag typos in words less than four characters such as "and", "the" "use", "for","out" etc which are commonly mis-typed.  It is also a bother as the forum software overrides FF spell check, and you have to remember to turn it on each time you post.

    Reenable the browser spellchecker, that will show the underlines as usual. The only difference is because of the fancy text editor on the forum, you need to control+right click to get the suggestions, instead of the simple right click.

    How do I do that? I usually (on the rare occasions I do anything) switch to Source mode to check for typos.

    Add this single javascript line to the page:

    CKEDITOR.config.disableNativeSpellChecker = false;

    I use tampermonkey to insert this line, but you can use any other method you like.

    The "enable browser spellchecking" script on my page does this if you want a fast solution. Link in signature.

    ...how and where?

    After the page finishes loading is fine. If you use any addons to modify the page content, you can just put it in there for the daz forum pages. If you have no idea what I'm talking about, then a very easy 5-click solution is on my page, see signature for link. 3 clicks to install the addon that allows modification of the pages, and 2 more clicks to add the above line to the forum pages.

  • nonesuch00nonesuch00 Posts: 18,841

    This forum doesn't seem to have any sort of spell check but on FB my posts often get autocompleted before I notice to be something wrong; often I must go back & correct autocompleted words. I certainly hopes no one that writes for a living uses autocomplete.

  • WonderlandWonderland Posts: 7,137

    On an iPad the autocorrected word will pop up in blue and if it's wrong you have to click the little X before you click space. Sometimes autocorrect comes in handy and sometimes it leads to hilarious results. I usually read over my text before I click post...

  • EtriganEtrigan Posts: 603

    I'm not sure what platform you're using. I do find, though, that if you're typing using a Bluetooth keyboard while rendering, entire words get dropped. I'm sure the same is true with any CPU or memory intensive application.

  • StezzaStezza Posts: 8,927
    edited September 2016

    yep happens to me all the time

    except for this post which ithasn't hapened

    but usually it does... hang on there's a missing space and a p.. yep, hapens to me all the time laugh

    Post edited by Stezza on
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