Typo is short for “typographical error” and while originally just for small spelling mistakes it’s use has been expounded to cover autocorrects and completely wrong words. Your phone won’t let you type a misspelled word, but hitting the “right” wrong keys can cause completely different words to come up. Because of this people use it for “brain farts” as well, they meant to type one thing something went wrong, and a different word showed up.
It’s a typographical error still.
So, you can try to fight language evolving, but it’s probably not going to work, even linguistics do t accomplish it when they try.
Thats why “literally” can literally mean figuratively now.
That’s more than a “typo”.
Typo is short for “typographical error” and while originally just for small spelling mistakes it’s use has been expounded to cover autocorrects and completely wrong words. Your phone won’t let you type a misspelled word, but hitting the “right” wrong keys can cause completely different words to come up. Because of this people use it for “brain farts” as well, they meant to type one thing something went wrong, and a different word showed up.
It’s a typographical error still.
So, you can try to fight language evolving, but it’s probably not going to work, even linguistics do t accomplish it when they try.
Thats why “literally” can literally mean figuratively now.
sort of the typo equivalent for a whole sentence