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submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

What is it about the text messages and emails sent by older people that make me feel like I'm having a stroke?

Maybe they're used to various shortcuts in their writing that they picked up before autocorrect became common, but these habits are too idiosyncratic for autocorrect to handle properly. However, that doesn't explain the emails I've had to decipher that were typed on desktop keyboards. Has anyone else younger than 45 or so felt similarly frustrated with geriatrics' messages?

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[-] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago

My mother would mistype and just accept whatever word was substituted in the autocorrect. So I’d receive messages like “what’s times area your striving art under Stevens’s on Saturdays”. Then I’d have to ring her, on the off chance she answered (only turned the phone on when expecting a call), so there wasn’t any point texting in the first place.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

My mother is the opposite. She will make sure to correct every word even it it’s clear what it meant.

I meant „even if“ not „even it“

[-] [email protected] -1 points 1 month ago

Haha aww that is me.

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