[stupac2]

Isn't autocorrect supposed to eliminate typos?

And "boarder" versus "border" and "remodel" versus "role model" are not typo issues because none of those are misspelled (assuming the first of each pair is what Doug typed in in the first place, that is).

Well, not really, they're mostly supposed to predict what you want to say. So if the thing thinks that "broader" is more likely to occur than "border" it will sub it in, often without telling you (though, of course, this depends on exactly what phone and input program you're using). I believe that "remodel" happened because he missed the space and typed "rolemodel", which the phone thought was closest to "remodel".

As for the other stuff, OF COURSE I agree with that, but the language Baldwin was using here was:
1) In the 99.9999th percentile of twitter users, as far as I can tell.
2) Only containing errors because of missed phone autocorrects.

I think that denigrating him for that is just ridiculous. If you want to complain about "lol ppl r 2 dum 4 me" type messages then I'll be with you every time, but this was just so obviously not that. At some point pedantry just makes you look bad.

[stupac2]

Isn't autocorrect supposed to eliminate typos?

And "boarder" versus "border" and "remodel" versus "role model" are not typo issues because none of those are misspelled (assuming the first of each pair is what Doug typed in in the first place, that is).

Well, not really, they're mostly supposed to predict what you want to say. So if the thing thinks that "broader" is more likely to occur than "border" it will sub it in, often without telling you (though, of course, this depends on exactly what phone and input program you're using). I believe that "remodel" happened because he missed the space and typed "rolemodel", which the phone thought was closest to "remodel".

As for the other stuff, OF COURSE I agree with that, but the language Baldwin was using here was:
1) In the 99.9999th percentile of twitter users, as far as I can tell.
2) Only containing errors because of missed phone autocorrects.

I think that denigrating him for that is just ridiculous. If you want to complain about "lol ppl r 2 dum 4 me" type messages then I'll be with you every time, but this was just so obviously not that. At some point pedantry just makes you look bad.