autospeak
English
editEtymology 1
editNoun
editautospeak (uncountable)
- (informal) Thoughtless, automatic speech.
- 1998, Michael Strain, Policy, leadership and professional knowledge in education:
- 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
editNoun
editautospeak (uncountable)
- (US, informal) The jargon associated with motor vehicles.
- 2007, Nury Vittachi, The Shanghai Union of Industrial Mystics, page 199:
- Honk, which was autospeak for `Get out of my way'.
- 2007 June 24, Nick Kurczewski, “A Minivan That Is Actually Mini”, in New York Times[1]:
- WHAT you call the Kia Rondo depends on how far you bend to the fickle winds of autospeak.