What Does This Mean?

Autocorrect Fail

[ SLANG ][ MACHINE JUDGMENT CULTURE ][ MACHINE CULTURE ]

FORCE: Machine CultureUNIVERSE: Machine Judgment CultureCLUSTER: Autocorrect Culture

A message sent with an embarrassing or nonsensical word swapped in by a phone's autocorrect, one of the most widely recognized and shared categories of everyday machine-caused mishap.

REAL-WORLD EXAMPLE

"Sent 'duck you' to my boss, classic autocorrect fail."

LORE & ORIGIN

Long-standing smartphone vocabulary for autocorrect's most common failure mode, a durable content category screenshotted and shared since autocorrect first became widespread.

FIRST SEEN

2010

PEAK ERA (EDITORIAL)

Not established

CURRENT STATUS

Mainstream Slang

Leer en español →Lire en français →日本語版を読む →한국어판 보기 →Ler em português →阅读中文版 →

EQUIVALENT CONCEPTS IN OTHER LANGUAGES

Español es-ESno fixed local term →Français fr-FRno fixed local term →日本語 ja-JPno fixed local term →한국어 ko-KRno fixed local term →Português pt-BRno fixed local term →中文 zh-CN自动纠错事故 →

AURA IMPACT ⓘ

+1 AURA

TREND STATUS

→ STEADY

EDITORIAL ESTIMATE

CULTURE CATEGORY

[ SLANG ][ MACHINE JUDGMENT CULTURE ][ MACHINE CULTURE ]

RELATED TERMS

MENTIONS OVER TIME

DOCUMENTED SINCE

2010

NOW

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