Hey Apple, can you get off my case with the spelling auto-correct?

Question

Sometimes when I use social media I want to spell words MY way, ie- as a joke or use slang but my MBP early '11 running Mountain Lion won't let me; it auto-corrects EVERYTHING no matter how many times I retype it. Sometimes I can be on to writing the next word and it will correct the previous one. Is there a way of stopping it from being control freaky and weird but without turn the feature off completely?

Answer 1

yes, the auto-correction drives me nuts.  the problem i see is that the keystroke they chose to accept the correction is "space". 
see: http://support.apple.com/kb/PH10844
"Accept or ignore suggested words
OS X uses “text prediction” to assist you as you type, by showing you suggested words below the word you are typing.
To accept a suggested word, press the Space bar and continue typing. If multiple suggestions are shown, click the one you want to accept.
To ignore the suggested word, continue typing as usual."
but unfortunately, "space" is a normal delimiter between words. so space is what we normally use to "continue on typing".  if they chose something different, like "tab" or "space-space" it would not interfere so much because those are not so common to use at the end of a real word.
autocorrect does help me for common typos.  i wish there were another option beside leaving it or or disabling it. 
does anyone know if there is a way to change the delimiter?  any third party software?
thanks for any suggestions-
ps: i plan to submit feedback about this topic...