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by mkl 3099 days ago
Well, why not? Ideally it should detect the language(s) you're using and use an appropriate word list, and surely subject context would be just as useful?

Of course, not everyone actually wants autocorrect. For me it's about 50% helpful and 50% a hindrance.

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Agreed, why not? Why should dictionaries not be improved? They're constantly in motion except for dead languages like Latin and Greek.

What could also work is having multiple hooks (different "niche" dictionaries) which could be enabled or disabled.

In SwiftKey you can select multiple languages (dictionaries) which should be supported (and corrected, if you opt for that option).

But what I mean is that say a user could enable a medication dictionary, or a UNIX manual dictionary, or a law dictionary, or...