tinwhiskers@lemmy.worldtoShowerthoughts@lemmy.world•There's probably a word I've been pronouncing wrong my whole life that I don't know about
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9 months agoI said automaton wrong for years. I said auto-maton instead of au-tomoton. I still cringe a bit thinking about it :-/
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automaton — Noun: 1. A machine or robot designed to follow a precise sequence of instructions., 2. A person who acts like a machine or robot, often defined as having a monotonous lifestyle and lacking in emotion., 3. A formal system, such as a finite-state machine or cellular automaton., 4. A toy in the form of a mechanical figure. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/automaton