Yeah - dictionaries are descriptive, not prescriptive.
I've known for years they're almost always intended to describe how people use the language, not how they _should_ use the language. :-) Interestingly, one of the early Merriam-Webster dictionaries was intended to be prescriptive! Youtube channel I've been watching: https://www.youtube.com/user/Xidnaf Wade. |
What should we call a "typo" when it wasn't typed?
- (drook)
- (13)
- June 29, 2017, 11:57:43 AM EDT
How about "goggld"?
-NT
- (mmoffitt)
- June 29, 2017, 02:41:53 PM EDT
Drumpfed?
- (Ashton)
- June 29, 2017, 03:50:22 PM EDT
You know what "typo" is short for, don't you?
- (static)
- (4)
- June 29, 2017, 11:20:44 PM EDT
Please don't link to any of them
- (drook)
- (3)
- June 30, 2017, 10:15:17 AM EDT
Never occurred to me. :-)
-NT
- (static)
- (2)
- June 30, 2017, 06:33:00 PM EDT
You'll like this
- (drook)
- (1)
- June 30, 2017, 07:47:26 PM EDT
Yeah - dictionaries are descriptive, not prescriptive.
- (static)
- July 1, 2017, 05:29:49 AM EDT
The correct term is of course "autoincorrect", but that's a little too long and cumbersome.
-NT
- (CRConrad)
- (5)
- June 30, 2017, 02:41:05 AM EDT
I like that. But shortened to "ainc"
-NT
- (mmoffitt)
- June 30, 2017, 08:21:50 AM EDT
Yes, good word but too long to be catchy
-NT
- (drook)
- June 30, 2017, 10:14:45 AM EDT
"Autotypo" would be shorter.
- (a6l6e6x)
- (2)
- June 30, 2017, 07:15:20 PM EDT
Hmm, better
-NT
- (drook)
- June 30, 2017, 07:47:51 PM EDT
"Autypo"?
-NT
- (CRConrad)
- July 1, 2017, 07:09:47 AM EDT
