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Often a courtesy of mobile keyboards.
If they have their keyboard set to a different language but type in English anyway, then it learns English words exactly how they're spelled. Which means they probably spelled Window with capital W at some point and then it got autocorrected to that exact spelling.
It's its s that's attached to it
this is art
Sometimes your keyboard also remembers when exactly you use certain words - like in the beginning of sentences, which most keyboards will capitalize by default.
I hate the whole "its" being converted to "it's" no matter what thing, but what I hate more is when I teach the keyboard a word, and it STILL won't let me use it. Taught my keyboard "that'd" and it would autocorrect it to "that's" every time. And unlike other words, if I went back and manually corrected it back, it wouldn't leave it, it'd force it back to "that's" again and refuse to let me change it. Come to think of it, it did that with "it'd" to "it's" too. Eventually I just switched to a different keyboard with much less aggressive autocorrect, since I still need the autocorrect to type with any semblance of speed due to minor coordination issues.
My old keyboard abruptly started autocorrecting more typos into what I was saying than it corrected toward the end anyway. Probably some shoddy attempt to implement AI auto correction.
Gboard does a pretty good job at highlighting your errors correctly in context. I'd guess it's iPhone users fucking up grammar that much.
Which is due to missing context at the end of a sentence, probably. Therefore it just chooses the most likely, but often not best, word.
Workaround: Disable autocorrect, and check for underlined words afterwards.
I'm pretty sure I turned that off ~8-10 years ago and Google has just remembered it ever since
Also I use swipe typing so that probably helps too
Good call! I hadn't thought of that factor; even though my English keyboard does that, too. I can't type random things it didn't know until it was taught like "BLARGH" without it auto-capitalizing the entire thing, like it just did here.
Which is extra hilarious when it's more nonsense memey things like "SQUART" or "VAGANAINIA" or "PREGANTE" or "DIYUCK" that my friends and I would spam each other with. Looking through the list of words it added to my 'personal dictionary' was hilarious. I struggle to get it to type all that nonsense in lowercase and it tickles me!
Google's keyboard is the absolute worst for that, tried using it for a bit but I'm back to SwiftKey which isn't absolutely insane (and which has more customization options too)
I still miss Swype too, and hopefully one of the open source keyboard apps will get good enough to replace all of them soon enough
That, or if they're like me, the person is just very tired. If I am extremely tired, I basically just hit shift on every word and don't care about it. In such cases, I might fix my posts and comments in the morning, or even delete them if they feel too much like "what the fuck did I write there".
Another key to identify those is double words.
Example: I Only Started Started Using Computers When When I Was 14.
I type on a mobile keyboard. Have for over a decade. I’ve never typed like this.