Petty Pet Peeves

[Kumquatqueen]

Most of my teachers objected to it quite strongly. The only two who didn't were the one who was a medical doctor first and the one who also had a PhD in kinesiology. It's probably largely dependent on the culture in the area.

My diploma in 'Anatomy, Physiology and Body Massage' (as opposed to what, mind massage'?) emphasised the importance of getting the -euse/-eur ending correct, and the teachers wanted to use the words to help avoid them being claimed only by dodgy sex types.

I got the impression that 'massage' was more associated with sex in America, because of the use of the term 'backrub' - which was explained to me as an unqualified person doing a massage but avoiding the term massage because that sounded dodgy. Ironically all the chaps I ever met who used the word backrub were definitely wanting to do a massage with dodgy connotations.

 

[Kumquatqueen]

On the subject of autocorrect - why is it that my (Android) autocorrect can correctly recognize 'wakizashi' and 'Chewbacca', but constantly screws up 'we're' and 'he'll/she'll'?

They really messed up Google Keyboard's autocorrect about 18 months ago. Hell gets turned to he'll, most of the time, its to it's, and perfectly cromulent words get autocorrected to a more common word after I've moved on to the next.

And in particular, any words with a hyphen are ignored rather than the second half being treated as a word and corrected as needed.

Ideally I'd use a keyboard/autocorrect config where I could edit those things and also pull commonly-used symbols to the main keyboard rather than having to go through 3 extra presses (the % sign in particular), but no-one seems to have made a decent configurable keyboard app.

 

[JTass]

They really messed up Google Keyboard's autocorrect about 18 months ago. Hell gets turned to he'll, most of the time, its to it's, and perfectly cromulent words get autocorrected to a more common word after I've moved on to the next.

And in particular, any words with a hyphen are ignored rather than the second half being treated as a word and corrected as needed.

Ideally I'd use a keyboard/autocorrect config where I could edit those things and also pull commonly-used symbols to the main keyboard rather than having to go through 3 extra presses (the % sign in particular), but no-one seems to have made a decent configurable keyboard app.

FYI - you can insert many symbols with a long press (hold for about a second instead of just tapping) on the default Android keyboard, at least on a Samsung.
For example, the % is a long press on the G key.