A new technological advancement in many electronic devices for use in social media. This advancement can either be a blessing or a curse. It posses the power to help your vocabulary when you don't know how to spell a word or make you sound like a complete utter dumb ass.
I tried texting my girlfriend that i was horny but that god damn auto-correct changed it to hirny, way to cock block me phone.
by daddyd-deadpool May 04, 2015
Mealy-mouthed attempt at getting people to avoid superficial expressions of bigotry, which ends up debasing the language without dealing with the stupidity underlying most hates and fears. Merely ends up giving the bigots one more thing to snarl at and, yes, it really can impose a tyranny of its own. Many examples of allegedly common politically correct speech are urban myths ... which we could still have done without.
Some (real and imaginary) examples of political correctness:
You're not black (in the USA), you're African-American.
(As Whoopi Goldberg once commented, and I may be paraphrasing, "My ancestors didn't come through generations of the slave trade and the Civil Rights movement to end up hyphenated.")
You're not crippled, you're differently abled.
You're not a member of the Undead, you are biometrically challenged.
You're not an android, you are an artificial person.
You're not black (in the USA), you're African-American.
(As Whoopi Goldberg once commented, and I may be paraphrasing, "My ancestors didn't come through generations of the slave trade and the Civil Rights movement to end up hyphenated.")
You're not crippled, you're differently abled.
You're not a member of the Undead, you are biometrically challenged.
You're not an android, you are an artificial person.
by Fearman August 16, 2007
Thanks to Political Correctness it's now 'wrong' for me to think certain thoughts, and that isn't right.
by Yurp Dihiggon July 22, 2014
When someone doesn't understand when you're trying to say error correction.
Obviously you're correcting the air.
Obviously you're correcting the air.
by mycowisemo February 01, 2014
When smart phones correct voice-to-text messages into something erotic, regardless of your original intent.
My smart phone's voice-to-text autoerotic-corrected "genius" to "penis," and I didn't check it before sending it!
A way of wording an expression in a way that specifies which individual, entity, or other thing committed an act or caused something to happen.
An example of an 'indirect attribution' is, "It was determined that 'unless exempt by diplomatic status, all persons entering the United States, including U.S. citizens, are subject to examination and search by Customs and Border Patrol officers'." Transformed into a "correct attribution" that statement would say something like, "In August of 2009, CBP Directive 3340-049 laid out its policies on searching electronic devices....In the course of a border search, with or without individualized suspicion, an Officer may examine electronic devices and may review and analyze the information encountered at the border.” Though correctly attributing an action increases transparency and accountability, and generally furthers the common good, it takes more time to say and/or space to write.
by but for October 12, 2017
by EMaddog February 29, 2008