Language is a certain template we use in order communication our thoughts and feelings to others. There are several template we can use to expresses ourselves. Many times, they what a certain language to be the in language that everyone must fill. By that isn't always the way it works. We must accept it her modes of communization. Over the years, did modes of communicate have been formed, such as using WMO and Alan. These forms have developed as a useful way to express emotions when there is an absence of tone. It has become such a Roy toast nobody takes the time to realize what they are writing. Autocorrect can be dangerously unhelpful while talking to someone. Yet, everybody seems to use it because or is supposed to helpful. Hence, this is another form of language that is formed in our generation and a way of communicating ideas with others. It hinders our ability to communicate effectively because it may incorrectly correct our sentences, defeating the entire purpose of autocorrect. For most, it has become an in convince. So, what's the point? Why are we still using it after knowing how it truly work? Is it driven by our lax? Maybe.
Reflection:
I'll be honest here. Originally, I had decided that I would write a post in my mother-tongue, Gujarati. However, there were a few issues with that. There is no easy way to transfer the characters of Gujarati onto blogger and even if there was, it would take my entire life to write this post. When I decided that I would write it in transliteration, it dawned on my mother that some of the words just could not be written with the English alphabet. Hence, it is obviously not a mode of communication that we write on paper.
While writing my blog in autocorrect, I was unnecessarily slow and careful. Obviously, I was supposed to make mistakes for the benefit of autocorrect. I stopped and tried to figure out my painstakingly slow pace and came to the conclusion that I wasn't comfortable with misspellings and incorrect grammar and especially replacement of words. But who is?
We grow up learning a certain way of speaking and writing and spelling, period. We never really look out of the box of our particular language. We don't realize that within our language, in this case English, there are many dialects and versions, whether it be Black English, autocorrect, emoticons, or even tweeting. When I send a message and I realize that "communicate" was changed to "immunization", I literally go into panic mode. And it because I have grown up being very particular about my spelling (well, most of the time) and it seems to be out of my comfort zone to see something misspelled or replaced in a sentence.
Although autocorrect should not be relied on while sending messages to others, it opens our eyes to the idea that not everything needs to spelled right or have to make sense in order for a message to be conveyed. Obviously, the above post is an extreme but sometimes, inferences can be made in order to decipher a message. I don't think autocorrect is effective because it can twist the meaning behind a message but I don't think that it is wrong all the time because if you are able to understand something regardless of the imperfections, why try to change it?
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