• lengau@midwest.social
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    Idk I just typed “kalifa” and had to fix autocorrect changing it to Khalifa. Or dude could be familiar with Arabic transliteration and the name but not the person.

    Doesn’t matter to me though. I’m distracted now that I’m thinking about Mia Khalifa.

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    To be fair, if I swipe kalifa on my keyboard it autocorrects to Khalifa every time. There is no kalifa option other than the one I’ve just forced. If this person wasn’t paying attention to the “h” it could’ve been accidental.

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      You’d assume if it was someone you didn’t know and someone else did, that they’d spell it right. So yeah, them correcting it means they looked it up or they’re lying. Autocorrect isn’t fixing that shit.

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        I just posted somewhere else, if I try to write kalifa (like I just did, I had to force the incorrect spelling) my phone automatically autocorrects to Khalifa.

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      Or the rapper Wiz Khalifa for that matter. The song played at the end of fast 7 when they sent Paul Walker away (See you again) has billions of views on YouTube. In fact it’s up to 7 billion now.

      Incidentally that was the movie in which they jumped out of Burj Khalifa in cars lol

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        I had read previously (and just confirmed on Wikipedia) that Mia Khalifa (real name Sarah Joe Chamoun) got her stage name from her dog, Mia, and Wiz Khalifa.

        So, familiarity with Wiz Khalifa is directly relevant to knowing how Mia Khalifa’s name is spelled.

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    Ok but… who is Mia khalifa?

    (I looked it up, I think it’s former controversial porn actress, current internet personality)

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    Tbf, you don’t have to be a rainman of early 2010s porn to recognise poor transliteration arabic to english, but i’m sure it helps.

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      I’m a smug dickhead, but usually when I make that mistake, it’s because swype doesn’t know which “your” I meant, and I fail to catch the mis-swype. Same with “too/to”. And, weirdly, “me/Mr”. It’s actually a pretty common occurrence, and it’s a huge pain point.

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    Most awesome thing I’ve seen today edit: wait I hiked up a hill and looked at the city skyline today, nevermind

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    Or autocorrect or they read it and wrote it how it sounded to them without looking closely at spelling or many other possible reasons.

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    They could’ve searched “Mia Kalifa” and found out the correct spelling. So it’s not necessarily begging for attention.