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.
Transcript of “What to Call a Phone Dictation Error: “Mico”? “Autocorrupt”? Something Else?”
We got an email from Ronnie Arnold who lives in Texas and apparently listens to us very early in the morning.
He said, Today, you had a discussion proposing a new word, Mico, for an error when you’re dictating on your phone.
He said, I was literally shouting from my bed.
Doesn’t everyone know that those types of autocorrect errors should be called autocorrupt?
Oh, yeah.
I’ve heard that one before, autocorrupt errors.
That’s a good one.
Yeah.
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