Well, it depends on whether it's trying to match what you typed to a plausible to a 3 letter word! But it's such a lottery, I'm frequently amazed at how accurate is and equally frequently amazed at how it manages to try and change correct words to what I don't want whilst also letting through complete 'non words' with never a mutter.
But it certainly makes me smile too. I often wonder at the size of the DB given that it often Capitalises the names of my friends and I think "How many real names does it have stashed away in there?". The joy of software algorithms ... Stephen On 28 Apr 2011, at 14:19, Phil Ward wrote: > All, > > Just a little, and mildly amusing, example of the World that Apple thinks we > all inhabit. I was typing away on my iPad this morning and miss-typed the > word "case". I missed the "a" and typed "cse". Of course the predictive auto > correct malarky immediately jumped in with its best guess of what I was > intending to write: "CSS", which, for the tiny minority of folks who don't > design web sites, stands for Cascading Style Sheets. I mean really, isn't it > wildly more likely that I was trying to type "case" than CSS? Made me laugh > anyway. > > Phil > > -- > Phil Ward > > Skype: aphilw > E: [email protected] > W: www.philward.biz > W: www.myspace.com/philwardmusic > W: www.myspace.com/thegalleonsband > > • Freelance writer and product designer. > • Exclusive UK distributor for Veillette Guitars. www.veilletteguitars.com. > • Consultant Designer of the Acoustic Energy AE22 nearfield monitor. > • Regular contributor to Sound on Sound and Performing Musician magazines. The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary. - H.L. Mencken -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" group. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/smug?hl=en-GB.
