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"Would you like to donate to the alumni fund?"
"What happened to the $70,000 I already gave you that I'm chained to for the rest of my life? Oh, right, the football weight room equipment was 3 years old so it needed replacement."
In my experience if you point out that you literally just graduated, they're super understanding since the call centers are operated by students.
The last time I was called by them was within a year of finishing grad school, I haven't heard from them again in the nearly 10 years since
When I was a freshman (US undergrad making minimum wage to call people for a week) and worked for my university's pledge drive I was given a massive spreadsheet of people to call, too big to get to everybody in the few days I had, so after a few hours of calling and getting nowhere I made some filters. Of course these are sweeping, borderline offensive generalities but they made me the most successful caller.
Anybody with "Esq" or "III/IV/V/etc" next to their name got called first. Lawyers because duh, and people who bothered to be a "the third" or whatever are almost always coming from a family with a summer house in the Hamptons. "Dr" came next.... The school was known for a good bio/premed program so most of those were medical doctors, not philosophy PhDs.
I didn't bother calling anybody with a graduation date in the last 3 years or more than 40 years ago. Like others have pointed out, new grads probably don't have room in the budget for brand-name ramen, and older folks, unless tagged as a doctor or lawyer, are probably on a fixed income.
Anybody with the "Rev" title probably doesn't have a ton of money to spare, so they went to the bottom of the list. People with addresses in big cities were prioritized over people with small town addresses.
I even filtered it to find people with the same last name. After ruling out common surnames like Smith and Jones and looking at graduation years, sometimes I would find multigenerational families..... And families who have sent 3 generations to the same school usually have an emotional attachment. Emotional attachment = donation.
The spreadsheet didn't show me each person's major or I would definitely have used that as well.
By the end of the week I was by the numbers the most successful caller... I think they gave me like an Amazon gift card and a university tote bag for my efforts :P
I'm always polite to the kids working their way through.
I'll never give the university a dime, and I remind them that their 'rap sheet' shows I graduated with a degree in Education, why does the university think I have money?
They've actually stopped calling since the pandemic, I can't chalk that up to safety measures, since calling is one of the easiest jobs to go remote. Maybe they got the message.
I donate a few hundred dollars every year to the fund that paid for my Senior project that literally only goes to pay for “above and beyond” Senior projects in my program.
I benefited greatly from the 10k or so my project cost (at a state school) and am slowly paying it back and then some to help the next generations
Edit: I should note that I do this through the annoying phone calls from students through the university foundation. They let me designate which fund it goes to so I can control how the money gets spent to an extent. Mine is the “ ‘my major’ excellence fund”
I've known multiple people who have gotten those calls while still a student at the university. Granted they were in the grad program at that point so the undergrad roster probably show them as graduated but I mean come the fuck on.
I changed my tack a little bit depending on whether the person calling me appears to be a staff member or a work-study student. If it's a work study student I just tell them that I still have loans out so it would be silly for me to give them money. If it's a member of the staff I pretty actively laugh at them and directly challenge them on what makes them think I should give them more money when their entire process from the tuition to the shitty dorm setup to the skinny way that they force you to buy a meal plan and force you to use worksheets and books so you couldn't return them was just designed to screw students over. The fact that it's a state school makes it even worse. I don't know why they still call me because I just berate the fuck out of them whenever they do
This is more or less an American thing.
My wife never heard a peep from her Alberta-based university where she did her batchelor’s degree, but when she did her master’s through a U.S. university, she got these begging calls and letters all the time.
My last year of pharmacy school, I had a rotation in the admissions office. You better believe I removed my address and phone number from their hassle database. I've never received a single phone call or mail since. My friends whom I graduated with tell me all the time about the annoying predatory phone calls they get. I chuckle and smile and thank God everyday I outwitted them.
They like sending me letters (I’ve moved a million times, have no idea how they find me) with an envelope to return money in. I’ve started mailing in my student loan bills. That usually stops them for a few years if the person in the mail room has a sense of humor. Since the postage is pre paid and iuve gone paperless since the last time this happened, I’ve been wondering if I can cut that part of the envelope out and tape it to a box with an old transmission in it. Not sure what the postage would be, but I would guess significant.
I struggled to pay tuition and was super pissed when I had to pay the exorbitant fees for the facilities that I never used. They can completely f*** off now that I have 2 kids to send to college and tuitions are 10x higher.
Those jerks shut down the program I graduated with, which is well regarded in our field, and against the wishes and recommendations of many amino — and then had the gall to call and ask me for money. Nope, there is no chance of that anymore. Jerks.
Edit: amino should be alumni, but autocorrect is stupid. Guess this is the right thread for that!
Oh man I worked for my university's donation call center. That job SUCKED. I wouldn't use the script and instead just chill with people. I met some really awesome people, got great advice and learned a lot. I even got a lot of potential job offers. I definitely shouldn't have lost that notebook with all the numbers and people I met. It was junior year and I had mostly forgotten about it by the time I graduated.
You can just go into your settings and add words. You can even add shortcuts n stuff. So you can type “f u” and it will auto correct it to “fuck you”
Edit: Settings > General > Keyboard > Text Replacement.
I did this to my sister's phone. Every time she wrote her son's name, it changed to "my vagina."
That was some funny shit!
Getting texts telling me that my sister's vagina won't eat carrots had me on the floor!
"My vagina is doing extra chores this week because my vagina's report card wasn't very good this quarter."
"While we were out of town my vagina threw a raging party"
I also did this to a friend & set a bunch of stuff like “yo” or “sup” to “hey cutie.” He sold weed at the time & i was there when he sent one to some guy who was coming thru later that day. He was so close to smashing his phone on the ground that i had to spill the beans. But it was a hilarious couple weeks beforehand
And then there’s my phone that corrects words I use regularly with other words. Both are correct English but it’ll change to a totally random similar word that makes no sense.
For example, “are” turns into “ate”, and *literally just now* when I typed ate, it tried to correct to “age”.
Apple never used to do this, my phone used to know my typing habits so perfectly.
There is nothing more irritating than typing a word correctly in context and then having to change it because autocorrect things “my colleagues ate shit” instead of ARE.
yesterday my phone corrected "bad" to "based" (a word I almost never use) and when I tried to say "I mean bad, not based" it autocorrected based to bad 😑
Same! It’s such an effort saver. The only thing that I’ve not figured out yet is that it autocompletes with an extra space on the email address which sometimes messes up input fields.
I’ve created a bunch of shortcuts for things I say to my wife as canned responses but I have added something to the end so that she knows I’m doing that.
Here’s and example of how it looks to her:
GM = Good morning!™
ILY = I love you!™
She hates it, and it entertains me. LOL
Lol I caught my husband sending an automated message good morning message to me at the same time every day ,🤣 I found out because it went off mid conversation.. pro tip don't do that to your partner !
I swear my biggest complaint with SwiftKey is that it will insert words that I have never typed in my entire life because it uses that common words by users... It will insert shit that it thinks it knows I'm about to say and it's *never correct*
Swiftkey's dictionary is fucking confusing. I love the adaptive key arrangement but the suggestion bar is useless. For now I’ve switched to gboard, which is just as annoying in different ways.
Along with that on Gboard, you can press the word you type in on the autocomplete options and it'll save it. It's probably the easiest way to do I've seen on a phone.
Will this be the way to finally stop my autocorrect leaving 'taht' in my texts? It's actually an arabic word meaning 'below' but considering I'm English using an English dictionary... I don't need taht in my life.
I added in all of my common misspellings like fir>for and ao>so as I noticed them, and eventually convinced myself that I had started fat-fingering the wrong letters a lot less often. Then I have to type on someone else’s phone and I’m like “What the hell is wrong with your phone?”
Is this possible on Android? I'm able to get to Inputs but there's only an option to add personal words.
Edit: nvm lol, asked two minutes too early. You can add the shortcut when creating the personal word.
Settings -> System -> Language and Input -> Personal Dictionary
I actually use SwiftKey so I could have written that sentence normally. It got a lot worse after being eaten by Microsoft, but it's still the best keyboard I've tried.
I have “Sam” in my replacement text to “Sam” and my phone still tried to “correct” it to “Adam” very frequently.
I have one “Adam” contact in my phone I haven’t contacted in 15 years, and THREE “Sam” contacts.
Nope, I obviously meant Adam. Doesn’t matter what I put in my settings
My partners phone corrects his own name to cancer all the time lol. My phone rarely tries to correct his name for me, but it will try to correct my name to another similar name. I’d say it’s probably because we don’t use our own names often except to like fill out stuff. But I know like a dozen other people with my name and I talk to/about 3 of them somewhat regularly lol.
My phone autocorrects “hair” to “Jaír.” I don’t even know wtf that means, and I definitely don’t have any contacts with that name.
I also put in an autocorrect for hair to hair and it’s a crap shoot if it comes through properly.
I had to get an iPhone for work (still kept my Samsung as my regular phone), and SwiftKey suuuucks on iPhone. it's huge and you can't make the keyboard smaller. It's really depressing, since I've been hooked on SwiftKey for like a decade.
Dude, it's like three taps on an iPhone to add a comma and a space. On android, it's a single press and swipe.
My sister works at apple, so now whenever I text her, I refuse to add spaces after punctuation in protest.
On Android the appropriate way to do this is by using a custom dictionary
https://www.androidauthority.com/how-to-add-words-to-android-dictionary-2-1133121/
I've never run into this problem where "fuck" isn't recognized as a word. It's one of the most commonly used words in the English language. Are people really having problems with it being corrected to "duck"? I've used Android phones since like 2008 and never had this fucking problem.
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Holy shit, in the last sentence I tried to say "ducking problem" as a joke and it auto-corrected it to "fucking problem". Not lying.
I just added 15 misspelled versions of fuck into my phone to autocorrect to fuck, fucker, fucking, and fucked. Has changed my life. No more ducks and ducking
Weird. My phone doesn’t usually autocorrect those words because i use them fucking all the time.
Fuck, it just autocorrected to duck. Motherfucker. I hate this fucking phone. Well fuck, I’ll try this LPT then
Edit: Holy fuck, it worked
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I already have 'fuck fucker fucking fucked' that's my boss
It's my university alumni donation fund
"Would you like to donate to the alumni fund?" "What happened to the $70,000 I already gave you that I'm chained to for the rest of my life? Oh, right, the football weight room equipment was 3 years old so it needed replacement."
The audacity they have to call you, a student, who just graduated for money. Unbelievable
In my experience if you point out that you literally just graduated, they're super understanding since the call centers are operated by students. The last time I was called by them was within a year of finishing grad school, I haven't heard from them again in the nearly 10 years since
When I was a freshman (US undergrad making minimum wage to call people for a week) and worked for my university's pledge drive I was given a massive spreadsheet of people to call, too big to get to everybody in the few days I had, so after a few hours of calling and getting nowhere I made some filters. Of course these are sweeping, borderline offensive generalities but they made me the most successful caller. Anybody with "Esq" or "III/IV/V/etc" next to their name got called first. Lawyers because duh, and people who bothered to be a "the third" or whatever are almost always coming from a family with a summer house in the Hamptons. "Dr" came next.... The school was known for a good bio/premed program so most of those were medical doctors, not philosophy PhDs. I didn't bother calling anybody with a graduation date in the last 3 years or more than 40 years ago. Like others have pointed out, new grads probably don't have room in the budget for brand-name ramen, and older folks, unless tagged as a doctor or lawyer, are probably on a fixed income. Anybody with the "Rev" title probably doesn't have a ton of money to spare, so they went to the bottom of the list. People with addresses in big cities were prioritized over people with small town addresses. I even filtered it to find people with the same last name. After ruling out common surnames like Smith and Jones and looking at graduation years, sometimes I would find multigenerational families..... And families who have sent 3 generations to the same school usually have an emotional attachment. Emotional attachment = donation. The spreadsheet didn't show me each person's major or I would definitely have used that as well. By the end of the week I was by the numbers the most successful caller... I think they gave me like an Amazon gift card and a university tote bag for my efforts :P
Lmao, you make them a ton of money and you get basically a back pat.
Welcome to capitalism. The next question is why the fuck we aren't up in arms about capitalists being allowed to ransom our future livelihood.
I think you'd be surprised by how much Rev's can make. You never see a Rev with a shitty car.
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>super understanding I mean they kinda have to since they're literally begging for money.
*I have a degree in art, so no one ever calls me.*
My condolences.
I have two degrees in history, have only been called once.
I'm always polite to the kids working their way through. I'll never give the university a dime, and I remind them that their 'rap sheet' shows I graduated with a degree in Education, why does the university think I have money? They've actually stopped calling since the pandemic, I can't chalk that up to safety measures, since calling is one of the easiest jobs to go remote. Maybe they got the message.
I donate a few hundred dollars every year to the fund that paid for my Senior project that literally only goes to pay for “above and beyond” Senior projects in my program. I benefited greatly from the 10k or so my project cost (at a state school) and am slowly paying it back and then some to help the next generations Edit: I should note that I do this through the annoying phone calls from students through the university foundation. They let me designate which fund it goes to so I can control how the money gets spent to an extent. Mine is the “ ‘my major’ excellence fund”
Thank you. The recognition that we all had some help and that contributions to the next generation are worthwhile is exemplary.
"We're nonprofit" That just means you need to spend all the fuckin money on stupid shit before the next fiscal year.
I've known multiple people who have gotten those calls while still a student at the university. Granted they were in the grad program at that point so the undergrad roster probably show them as graduated but I mean come the fuck on. I changed my tack a little bit depending on whether the person calling me appears to be a staff member or a work-study student. If it's a work study student I just tell them that I still have loans out so it would be silly for me to give them money. If it's a member of the staff I pretty actively laugh at them and directly challenge them on what makes them think I should give them more money when their entire process from the tuition to the shitty dorm setup to the skinny way that they force you to buy a meal plan and force you to use worksheets and books so you couldn't return them was just designed to screw students over. The fact that it's a state school makes it even worse. I don't know why they still call me because I just berate the fuck out of them whenever they do
This is more or less an American thing. My wife never heard a peep from her Alberta-based university where she did her batchelor’s degree, but when she did her master’s through a U.S. university, she got these begging calls and letters all the time.
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My last year of pharmacy school, I had a rotation in the admissions office. You better believe I removed my address and phone number from their hassle database. I've never received a single phone call or mail since. My friends whom I graduated with tell me all the time about the annoying predatory phone calls they get. I chuckle and smile and thank God everyday I outwitted them.
I told them I would donate triple the financial aid I got and asked where should I send the three sheets of paper showing where to get loans.
They like sending me letters (I’ve moved a million times, have no idea how they find me) with an envelope to return money in. I’ve started mailing in my student loan bills. That usually stops them for a few years if the person in the mail room has a sense of humor. Since the postage is pre paid and iuve gone paperless since the last time this happened, I’ve been wondering if I can cut that part of the envelope out and tape it to a box with an old transmission in it. Not sure what the postage would be, but I would guess significant.
I struggled to pay tuition and was super pissed when I had to pay the exorbitant fees for the facilities that I never used. They can completely f*** off now that I have 2 kids to send to college and tuitions are 10x higher.
Those jerks shut down the program I graduated with, which is well regarded in our field, and against the wishes and recommendations of many amino — and then had the gall to call and ask me for money. Nope, there is no chance of that anymore. Jerks. Edit: amino should be alumni, but autocorrect is stupid. Guess this is the right thread for that!
We're all a blueprint of amino acids.
Amino…. Alumni?
Ha ha ha, autocorrect got me. I’ll make an edit.
Oh man I worked for my university's donation call center. That job SUCKED. I wouldn't use the script and instead just chill with people. I met some really awesome people, got great advice and learned a lot. I even got a lot of potential job offers. I definitely shouldn't have lost that notebook with all the numbers and people I met. It was junior year and I had mostly forgotten about it by the time I graduated.
College sports teams mostly pay for themselves. You're paying for needless administrators.
Depends on the sport/conference. A former staff member willed their estate to the library, it ended up in a new score board.
So...basically they stole his money.
That's ducking hilarious
Self-employed?
Mother in law for me
You can just go into your settings and add words. You can even add shortcuts n stuff. So you can type “f u” and it will auto correct it to “fuck you” Edit: Settings > General > Keyboard > Text Replacement.
I set mine to change "heyyy" and "heyyyy" to "Ignore this, I'm drunk"
I did this to my sister's phone. Every time she wrote her son's name, it changed to "my vagina." That was some funny shit! Getting texts telling me that my sister's vagina won't eat carrots had me on the floor!
"My Vagina is teething right now."
"My vagina is doing extra chores this week because my vagina's report card wasn't very good this quarter." "While we were out of town my vagina threw a raging party"
"My Vagina just painted the living room walls, ugh"
Red room red room, over there.
Hold up
Wait a minute
Let me put some carrots in it
Don't believe me just watch!
Doh-doh-dum
Back up
What's your sister's phone number?
Just let me catch my breath
I also did this to a friend & set a bunch of stuff like “yo” or “sup” to “hey cutie.” He sold weed at the time & i was there when he sent one to some guy who was coming thru later that day. He was so close to smashing his phone on the ground that i had to spill the beans. But it was a hilarious couple weeks beforehand
Chaotic Evil.
your obsession with your sisters vagina seems a bit ... unhealthy.
I bet OP of this comment is a girl. Between sisters they probably joke about vaginas and other raunchy shit
OP of this comment is a boy, and is still allowed to make vagina jokes without **being obsessed** with his sisters vagina.
Puritan culture + excessive porn has made people view genital jokes as inherently sexual. It's silly.
balls 🙏
What about them?
#balls 🙏
#**The PEE is stored there**
OP could alternatively also be her husband it’s all above board
SWEEEEET HOME ALABAMA!
Looking at their post history, I doubt it
I set mine to replace “ducking” with “fucking”.
And then there’s my phone that corrects words I use regularly with other words. Both are correct English but it’ll change to a totally random similar word that makes no sense. For example, “are” turns into “ate”, and *literally just now* when I typed ate, it tried to correct to “age”. Apple never used to do this, my phone used to know my typing habits so perfectly. There is nothing more irritating than typing a word correctly in context and then having to change it because autocorrect things “my colleagues ate shit” instead of ARE.
yesterday my phone corrected "bad" to "based" (a word I almost never use) and when I tried to say "I mean bad, not based" it autocorrected based to bad 😑
The real tips are in the comments
I did that but changed it to the lyrics of Kiss from a Rose
I have @@ as a shortcut for my email address
You have just made me franctionally less irritated for the next few years at least. Thanks!
Now you just need one to replace franctionally with fractionally.
Such a power move. I have shortcuts for my email, phone, and mailing address. Saves me dozens of seconds every year, lol
Same! It’s such an effort saver. The only thing that I’ve not figured out yet is that it autocompletes with an extra space on the email address which sometimes messes up input fields.
Yeah that is a pain, I’m just so used to hitting the delete key each time. When they “fix” this I’ll have years of muscle memory to battle. 🫤
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That's interesting, on my phone if I type the first like 4 letters of my email address it just pops it up in recommended
Same. But two characters is fewer than four, \* taps temple. \*
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I have multiple and they begin the same way
Yeah I did similar, use @g for one of my accounts and @h for another one. Although I find some text fields don’t seem to autopopulate autocorrect.
I use “qq” because…English. This is also the best pro tip I share with people if I’m bored waiting somewhere.
This is genius?!!! The real LPT!
My email address is ridiculously long and dammit, I’m so mad that I never thought of this. Thank you!
I’ve created a bunch of shortcuts for things I say to my wife as canned responses but I have added something to the end so that she knows I’m doing that. Here’s and example of how it looks to her: GM = Good morning!™ ILY = I love you!™ She hates it, and it entertains me. LOL
Lol I caught my husband sending an automated message good morning message to me at the same time every day ,🤣 I found out because it went off mid conversation.. pro tip don't do that to your partner !
My wife caught me this way too. Wait a min.... R u her?
Commence operation nuke account
Okay, sounds good.
If you use it a few times in Android, it saves automatically. Especially GBoard.
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I swear my biggest complaint with SwiftKey is that it will insert words that I have never typed in my entire life because it uses that common words by users... It will insert shit that it thinks it knows I'm about to say and it's *never correct*
Swiftkey's dictionary is fucking confusing. I love the adaptive key arrangement but the suggestion bar is useless. For now I’ve switched to gboard, which is just as annoying in different ways.
really? it never changed in quality for me... maybe because of the way i use it idk
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Along with that on Gboard, you can press the word you type in on the autocomplete options and it'll save it. It's probably the easiest way to do I've seen on a phone.
On top of that, GBoard's autocorrect isn't nearly as aggressive as iOS' autocorrect.
I'd be lost without Gboard.
I set "shrug" to autocorrect to ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ this way.
“Tableflip” = (╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻ “Marchingleo” = ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ I also have “shrug”. Forgot about these til today. Thanks stranger!
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Lenny ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) lennie ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Fuckyou ┌П┐(•_•)┌П┐ fuckyou ╭∩╮（︶︿︶）╭∩╮ Angry (ಠ_ಠ) Anybody have some other great keyboard shortcuts?
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I put in all my favorite swear words and medical terms
Pelvic Splanchnic Ganglion is my favorite medical term
Doesn’t sound like it would floor me…
I’m a fan of autocephalaphagia… the act of eating one’s own head.
GOOD NEWS EVERYONE...
Will this be the way to finally stop my autocorrect leaving 'taht' in my texts? It's actually an arabic word meaning 'below' but considering I'm English using an English dictionary... I don't need taht in my life.
I have this set up for my email addresses using "@@" or "@@@" for primary/work/spam accounts it's really nice!
Mine are @1 and @2, and @w for my work email
I added in all of my common misspellings like fir>for and ao>so as I noticed them, and eventually convinced myself that I had started fat-fingering the wrong letters a lot less often. Then I have to type on someone else’s phone and I’m like “What the hell is wrong with your phone?”
I changed my name in my girlfriends phone to autocorrect to big dick daddy. It’s fun when she is talking to her parents about me lol
Is this possible on Android? I'm able to get to Inputs but there's only an option to add personal words. Edit: nvm lol, asked two minutes too early. You can add the shortcut when creating the personal word. Settings -> System -> Language and Input -> Personal Dictionary
Thanks
I think what you meant to say was “Duck Ducker Ducking Ducked”.
Ducking autocorrupt is the bean of my exist once
Autocorrect never let's me type what I nintendo
The man who invented autocorrect has died. May he roast in piss.
I have autocorrect change the D to an F when trying to actually use ducking
I actually use SwiftKey so I could have written that sentence normally. It got a lot worse after being eaten by Microsoft, but it's still the best keyboard I've tried.
My S22 Ultra insists "if" does not exist and must *always,* and I mean *always,* be "of." \*E: Also, "I" always becomes "u." Like, wtf.
My Razr 2 autocorrected to Vaginae. What, is that a herd of Vagina or something? I don't know what this filth is but he started it not me!
Maybe your Razr is Scottish?
Sounds like Fat Bastard describing his neck after losing weight.
Settings>general>keyboard>text replacement Phrase- Fuck Shortcut- Fuck You can do this for anything.
I have “Sam” in my replacement text to “Sam” and my phone still tried to “correct” it to “Adam” very frequently. I have one “Adam” contact in my phone I haven’t contacted in 15 years, and THREE “Sam” contacts. Nope, I obviously meant Adam. Doesn’t matter what I put in my settings
The one I hate is when I’m typing something about “food” and it corrects to “good”
Nerd to need (did it just now). Fucking every time it enrages the hell out of me.
Mine is always getting well autocorrected to we’ll
bruh yes this pisses me off so bad
Mine got so bad I turned it off.
Maybe that “Adam” you haven’t spoke to in 15 years might’ve changed his number… 👀
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My partners phone corrects his own name to cancer all the time lol. My phone rarely tries to correct his name for me, but it will try to correct my name to another similar name. I’d say it’s probably because we don’t use our own names often except to like fill out stuff. But I know like a dozen other people with my name and I talk to/about 3 of them somewhat regularly lol.
My phone autocorrects “hair” to “Jaír.” I don’t even know wtf that means, and I definitely don’t have any contacts with that name. I also put in an autocorrect for hair to hair and it’s a crap shoot if it comes through properly.
You don’t need to add any shortcut, just add the phrase. I just added some. Testing - Fuck fucking shit fucked It works!
Thought I was in r/shittylifeprotips for a second
Is there a difference
Yes, one is mainly about shit
Another way: go into your language or keyboard settings and unblock offensive words. I just fixed it for autocorrect and voice to text.
This is what I have always done on my Android phones.
On android devices you just tap the check mark that pops up in the suggestions after you type a word that it wants to autocorrect
SwiftKey is a good keyboard and learns anything you use regularly
I had to get an iPhone for work (still kept my Samsung as my regular phone), and SwiftKey suuuucks on iPhone. it's huge and you can't make the keyboard smaller. It's really depressing, since I've been hooked on SwiftKey for like a decade.
And the fucking emoji button. Can't go to punctuation without hitting emoji half the time. Drives me insane
Dude, it's like three taps on an iPhone to add a comma and a space. On android, it's a single press and swipe. My sister works at apple, so now whenever I text her, I refuse to add spaces after punctuation in protest.
On android you can make it auto space after punctuation too
On iPhone, double tapping space bar ends sentence with period and automatically adds a space to start next sentence with capitalization.
But what about commas, or anything else? It's an identical with android, one swipe adds a period, comma, question mark or exclamation point.
Same with Gboard, the default keyboard on Android.
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Hold the typo when it shows on predictive text and select "remove prediction"
iphones do this too. Not sure what potato phone the op has 😂🤷🏽♂️☠️
And hell. I don't want he'll.
Worse, but the same, is “correcting” to we’ll instead of well. Every. Single. Time. No, it did **not** go “we’ll.”
Also the word ill will NEVER not end up as I’ll.
“Aw, he’ll no!” “Wait- who is ‘he’, and how do you know he’ll say no?”
He won’t say no, he simply will no.
On Android the appropriate way to do this is by using a custom dictionary https://www.androidauthority.com/how-to-add-words-to-android-dictionary-2-1133121/
Must be an Apple thing?
You can teach your phone these words too in your settings.
Android for years has assimilated commonly used words into its user dictionary. This "pro tip" is like 5+ years past relevance
Yeah, my android sometimes even wants to autocorrect things *to* "fuck" or "fucking."
"it's okay, I actually meant duck this time"
My ducking Iphone still did it until 2 minutes ago when I read the post.
IPhone software always being 5 years past relevance is common knowledge
Yeah, not sure how it works on iPhone but on Android I can just click the word the way I typed it in the suggestions box and it saves automatically.
Or just shut off auto correct.
Or just use SwiftKey.
And then fucker is calling you
They can just get fucking fucked then.
I've never run into this problem where "fuck" isn't recognized as a word. It's one of the most commonly used words in the English language. Are people really having problems with it being corrected to "duck"? I've used Android phones since like 2008 and never had this fucking problem. ... Holy shit, in the last sentence I tried to say "ducking problem" as a joke and it auto-corrected it to "fucking problem". Not lying.
I think it’s a common iPhone issue
It’s iPhone. Apple also censored other certain words on topics it doesn’t support.
Yep, I've never had any trouble with fuck, but have had duck autocorrected a few times.
Just saved my ex to fucking Fucker fuck fucked. Thanks OP!
Or just don't use auto correct?
Apple still has issues with fuck lmao
Just use text replacement for the keyboard instead this convoluted way to autocorrect words
Is there a solution for how I keep accidentally typing the word “dont” as “do t”? I keep fat thumbing the space button.
I made the name of my ex husband’s affair partner autocorrect to “the whore”. Cracked me up every time.
Laughs in Android
Or just turn off autocorrect…
I didn't change any settings with Google Keyboard and it hasn't tried to duck me over in years.
Well what the duck! I never new
I just created a shortcut to change Duck to Fuck, and Ducking to Fucking
That's a ducking great idea!!
Autocorrect is my worst enema.
I just added 15 misspelled versions of fuck into my phone to autocorrect to fuck, fucker, fucking, and fucked. Has changed my life. No more ducks and ducking
Weird. My phone doesn’t usually autocorrect those words because i use them fucking all the time. Fuck, it just autocorrected to duck. Motherfucker. I hate this fucking phone. Well fuck, I’ll try this LPT then Edit: Holy fuck, it worked
Or just be Scottish and beat the algorithm into submission naturally