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loloquwowndueoyesterday at 5:45 PM2 repliesview on HN

Haha sometimes I want to type f*ck and it gets auto corrected to duck. But once I was trying to type “pura” (pure in Spanish, I do have Spanish enabled for auto correct) and it auto corrected it to “puta” (look it up). Shrug.


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rootusrootustoday at 1:18 AM

The workaround is to add fuck as a shortcut for fuck. They intended the translation for doing things like translating omw to "On my way" but it works as a hack to let you use profanity without autocorrect killing it.

sammy2255yesterday at 5:56 PM

I'm in the same boat. This is bewildering to me, because I recall Apple making a joke about (it being fixed) in this in the 2023 developer conference:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qD0u0aNyzz8