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It might be software-based; the clbuttic mistake. My favourite clbuttic error was "consbreastutional"...
by vacri 11y ago
It might be software-based; the clbuttic mistake. My favourite clbuttic error was "consbreastutional"...
- smcl 11y agoSimilar to this is the "cupertino" effect: there's a number of examples in the first few minutes of this episode of RadioLab (and a few more scattered throughout): http://www.radiolab.org/story/91721-oops/ http://www.radiolab.org/story/91721-oops/ IT's when a legitimate word is mistakenly auto-corrected or switched out by a filter - apparently named after the word "co-operation" being mistakenly corrected to be "Cupertino". One of the examples given is a christian website which bowedlerised* the word "Gay" to "Homosexual" and posted an article about talking the 100m sprinter "Tyson Homosexual"
- gadders 11y agoApparently it's now known as the Scunthorpe Problem for obvious reasons: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scunthorpe_problem https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scunthorpe_problem