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WCDT Strips 3296 to 3300 (29 August - 02 September 2016)
Method of Madness:
@freeman: That might work as a reason for your initial use, but once someone asks you not to continue using that word since it makes them uncomfortable, any justification goes away.
jwhouk:
And here I thought it was a spell check typo.
Sent from my Nextbook
freeman:
I'm not sure if I should mull with this subject anymore, but when I was writing the second post, I was thinking: surely, "diabetic" is an acceptable term, so in a similar vein, there should be no problem with "autist".
Apparently, it is not: http://health.usnews.com/health-news/health-wellness/articles/2014/12/10/why-diabetic-is-a-dirty-word
Fascinating.
Storel:
--- Quote from: Nepiophage on 30 Aug 2016, 08:38 ---
--- Quote from: BenRG on 30 Aug 2016, 07:00 ---The word I've most often heard (usually in an artistic context) is 'auteur'.
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Except that also means a film director/producer/screenwriter
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I believe that was the joke.
oddtail:
--- Quote from: jheartney on 30 Aug 2016, 10:22 ---Am I the only person that likes gestural typing on a phone? I find it less stressful than trying to hit tiny onscreen keys with my big fumble fingers. Sometimes it generates the wrong words, but then again so does regular smartphone typing.
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I hate tiny buttons on a phone, but I have a thing about having full control of what I type. I use a keyboard called MessagEase (it's available for free for the Android and I think other OS as well) with nine buttons where the letter input depends on which direction you swipe a particular button. It's very unwieldy at first (as everyone who has ever picked up my phone can attest), but after a little practice, it's the fastest input method on a phone I've ever used (other than speaking into a phone with voice recognition). It's even fully customizable, so I actually added the missing Polish diacritics to it.
All in all, I enthusiastically recommend it. I have autofill and autocorrect disabled, and yet I type quite fast (given the limitations of the device) and hardly ever make typos.
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