"typo"

[Mark Mandel]

Also "speako", which we used frequently at Dragon Systems in the nineties. I
see two different definitions on the Web; I don't remember which one we
used, or both. I'll ask on the ex-Dragon list.

*I.* a slip of the tongue; any error in speaking:

*a: *
http://www.wordspy.com/words/speako.asp
(SPEE.koh) *n*. An error in speaking, especially when dictating to a voice
recognition system.

*b:
*http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Speako
1.
When you accidently say the wrong word, mispronounce a word, or call your
girlfriend by a different name than her own.
"Hey helen.... I mean Susan, uh oh!"
"Oh Helen it feels so good... , oh shit ahh my nuts! I mean Susan...
honestly! HEY HEY"

2.
A speako is kind of like a typo: you say the wrong thing by accident.
Kate: Brandon snapped my gender bracelet!
Lizzy: Don't you mean sex bracelet?
Kate: Oops, speako.

*II.* an error made by speech recognition software

http://www.netlingo.com/word/speako.php
Slang for a typo made by a speech recognition program.
NetLingo Classification: Online Jargon

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Mark A. Mandel
Senior Linguist, Dragon Systems, Inc. (R.I.P.), 1990-1999 (2001)


On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 8:35 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>wrote:

> At 7:36 PM -0400 8/11/10, Garson O'Toole wrote:
> >The Macmillan Dictionary does not cover typos in emails or blog posts:
> >
> >typo noun [countable] informal
> >a small mistake in a printed document
>
> That's certainly too narrow.  I think any academic who "publishes" a
> paper in .pdf form (increasingly constituting the only publication of
> record, e.g. for conference proceedings or working papers) and
> transposes letters commits a typo.
>
> Then there's the spinoff, "thinko".  Don't know when that dates from
> but it's been around awhile.
>
> LH
>
> >
> >The Wiktionary definition is currently general enough to cover the
> >incorrectly painted letters. Perhaps it is too general:
> >
> >typo (plural typos) Noun
> >    1. A compositor.
> >    2. A spelling or typographical error.
> >
> >http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/typo
> >
> >The Wikipedia entry on on "Typographical personification" may offer an
> >explanation. The "typo demon" now visits road painters as well as
> >typists.
> >http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typo_fairy
> >
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