Terms vs Autospeak - What's the difference?
terms | autospeak |
(informal) Thoughtless, automatic speech.
* 1998 , Michael Strain, Policy, leadership and professional knowledge in education
(US, informal) The jargon associated with motor vehicles.
* 2007 , Nury Vittachi, The Shanghai Union of Industrial Mystics (page 199)
* {{quote-news, year=2007, date=June 24, author=Nick Kurczewski, title=A Minivan That Is Actually Mini, work=New York Times
, passage=WHAT you call the Kia Rondo depends on how far you bend to the fickle winds of autospeak . }}
As nouns the difference between terms and autospeak
is that terms is while autospeak is (informal) thoughtless, automatic speech or autospeak can be (us|informal) the jargon associated with motor vehicles.autospeak
English
Etymology 1
Noun
(-)- If management is not quite as routinised as teaching, it still involves quite a lot of autospeak when what people say follows familiar pathways.
Etymology 2
Noun
(-)- Honk, which was autospeak for `Get out of my way'.
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