Stop computer from "self correcting"
When I respond to a quiz question my computer often "self corrects" and changes what I have written into a muddled English version. How can I turn off this feature?
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Huh? I'm not sure that I understand your question. However, I suspect that your quiz answers are in Spanish and your spell checker/corrector is for English only. The program looks at the Spanish and tries to match it to its English vocabulary. It then offers its best guess corrections. Your alternative is to turn off the checker/corrector or install a Spanish version to work in tandem.
Mine automatically recognizes the languages and makes suggestions as appropriate.
Sometimes the way you have written it is shown and you click on that and it will stay. or do it twise and it gets the idea that you want what you wrote. It is a problem for me when Im using skype. I would like to know all solutions to this problem.
Hello Hardwick,
Welcome to our Spanishdict community forum 
You asked:
When I respond to a quiz question my computer often "self corrects" and changes what I have written into a muddled English version. How can I turn off this feature?
The feature that is changing your words seems like it could be a form of predictive text function that corrects what you have written unless you first confirm the exact words you type! This smart type feature is trying to learn from your typing your vocabulary and the way you use your nstive language! Alternatively, it could be a spell checker feature.
I have a predictive text feature turned on on my phone and I know from experience how frustraron it can be! I have personally chosen to learn to work with it and use it despite the disadvantages.
Please tell us what Operating System you are using eg Windows 7 or Mac and hopefully someone will be able to advise you how to deactivate it (turn it off)!
It sounds like you are using one of the Windows operating systems with one of their language packs and have the English spell checker turned on/activated.
Se look forward to helping you
