Windows Phone 8.1 review: A magnificent smartphone platform

19 Apr 2014 • arstechnica.com

It does, however, highlight a long-standing problem of almost all software keyboards. I'm a grown adult. I use swear words. While swear words are generally in the dictionaries of these keyboards, so they don't get red underlined, they're normally blocked from autocompleting. The autocomplete will always assume I meant ducking instead of another word, one that sounds like ducking but has a very different meaning.

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This means that the swipe keyboard will never produce a swear word, even when that's the only desired word. To use the English language in all its variety and richness, you have to revert to traditional letter-at-a-time tapping. This is strangely jarring, really detracting from the value of the swipe keyboard. I really like the swipe keyboard, but every time I have to tap a word out letter by letter, I scowl.

In 2014 it's about time we had an easy solution to this. What about an "auto-complete expletives" toggle switch or something. Make it off by default but allow those of us who want to use swear words to enable it.