Auto Correct Suggestion for Capitalisation of Deal Titles for SI Units

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  retiredfeline on 29/04/2018 - 17:29

  +6

  +1

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  ronnknee on 29/04/2018 - 19:57

  You don't have to accept the suggested title.

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    alvian on 29/04/2018 - 22:30

    No I don't, but as a newly promoted Power User I've come to realise just how much checking and editing is done on posts to make OzBargain look so good. Having a reliable Autocorrect really helps. During bad times almost every post needed editing.

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  [Deactivated] on 29/04/2018 - 20:02

  That's like telling people to write "a lot" instead "alot".

  And don't get me started on idiotic oxygen-thieves who write "could of" instead of "could have".
  I automatically stop reading if I find rubbish like this.

  In other words, so many people have gone about it the wrong way for so long, that the incorrect way is taken to be the correct way.

  All the very best to you in preaching the right rules of grammar.

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    retiredfeline on 29/04/2018 - 20:06

    +3

    Alvian is actually asking for the autocorrect feature to fix people's non standard usage of SI abbreviations. People can be lazier than ever. And it's not grammar, to be pedantic.

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    alvian on 29/04/2018 - 20:40

    In this case it is the autocorrect that is wrong. AC wrongly treats SI prefixes and units as English and suggests incorrect capitalisations. AC is suppose to help a poster with styling, but instead it is making a mess of deal titles.

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  thedriver on 29/04/2018 - 21:41

  Why the hell does auto-correct modify the first letter of every word anyway?

  … Or, in OzB speech:

  Why The Hell Does Auto-correct Modify The First Letter Of Every Word Anyway?

  The later is far less readable. Capitals have a purposefully meaning in the English language. Let's use them appropriately.

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    alvian on 29/04/2018 - 21:58

    +3

    Some style guides want titles to be so formatted. It is called title case styling. Of course, these are guides (not rules) that one adopts to ensure consistent formatting. There are other style guides that ask for, for examples, sentence case or even all caps for titles.

    On the other hand, capitalisation for SI prefixes and units are rules that should not be broken. SI capitalisation is not a style, a trend, a fashion, and definitely not a personal preference. It is either correct or incorrect, and autocorrect is incorrect here (by treating SI as English). I want that fixed.

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    timmypete on 30/04/2018 - 11:07

    Seconding thedriver's point about readability. I'd prefer Ozbargain adopt a style that only capitalises the first work of a title and any other word that would normally require it.

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      D C on 30/04/2018 - 12:17

      That's called sentence case, and puts the onus back on the poster to capitalise the correct words. That's not likely to happen unless OzBargain has a list of proper nouns it can look up & fix, and that's never going to be complete (brand names etc).

      That's the problem with auto-whatever, it works fine until it doesn't. And turning it off will probably make things even worse.