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> What I can see is a bunch of ways to avoid human contact including no longer calling people like a real human or not even choosing my own words in an email.

Auto-complete is hardly "avoiding human contact", is it?

Regardless, these features are all optional - if you feel as though you're avoiding human interaction by using auto-complete, why not just... not use it?

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>Auto-complete is hardly "avoiding human contact", is it?

It is. It removes the color and nuance from typed communication. There's a lot of metadata in typos.

> It is. It removes the color and nuance from typed communication. There's a lot of metadata in typos.

Oh puh-lease. Are you seriously trying to argue that TYPOS are the anchor upon which genuine human interaction hinges on?

I mean, wow. If you're trolling that's amazing.

You conveyed more emotional information in the misspelled "puh-lease" than you would've with the correctly spelled "please".

>Are you seriously trying to argue that TYPOS are the anchor upon which genuine human interaction hinges on?

I said no such thing. I stated, correctly, that typos convey information. Removing typos removes information.

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