finger trouble n. a problem caused by a typographical error, incorrect settings on a machine, or poor manual dexterity. Etymological Note: This term appears to originate in aviation. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
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After a listener suggested that a phone dictation error might be called a mico, formed by analogy with typo, a Texas listener wrote to say that such autocorrect blunders are better referred to as autocorrupt. This is part of a complete episode...
Jane Alberdeston is a poet who lives in Norfolk, Virginia, but she’s originally from Puerto Rico, and notes that in the capital of Puerto Rico, San Juan, there’s a famous statue of Christopher Columbus with his finger pointing toward the...
With PC’s, such errors are politely called “chair keyboard interface errors”, or, less politely, “Id10t” errors.”
In tech support parlance: “User Error, Replace user and try again.”