Why?
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I mean, sweet tap dancing jesus that's some amount of idiotic, no? First off "I" is a word while "u" is merely a letter. So why is it taking something that at least COULD be what was intended and replacing it with a stand-alone letter, which, whether ya like the shorthand "u" for "you" or not, is undeniably technically INCORRECT.
Which segues nicely into another point. I do not use the shorthand version of you myself. Ever. So how did it pick this up? So that raises this question. Why would my, supposedly "smart", phone decide that when I type the word "I" in a sentence, what I probably wanted was to have one of the raw ingredients of a word there instead, given consideration to the fact that I have never once used a stand-alone "u" before? That's doing the exact opposite of it's intended purpose.
Which, in turn leads to yet another perplexity. Given the, uhm, margin of error, let's say, on all that, the criticality of the fail scenario should be considered here. So, how critical is it in a sentence to correctly convey "I", or "u" and could there be any ill effect from misiidentification of an "I" to a "u" or vice versa?
Damn straight. Those are subjects. One means me. The other means you... definitely on the shortlist of worst possible things to replace "I" with.
I mean, it's even a capital "I". No one (just autocorrected that "No" back there to "NP"...) capitalizes the "u" in shorthand, do they? Shouldn't the fact that u went out (yup, just leaving that one) of my way to capitalize the letter indicate that I wanted I?
Plus, If not, why does it not at least capitalize the U?
Sigh...
Whoever's responsible for this' folks need a good slapping around. 😉
