Originally posted by Nowhere Matt Off topic.
What is most likely is that something was lost in translation.
I am not meaning to derail any fun you are having at the discussion but perhaps the wording and meaning was dicyphered from another language for the manual and camera program.
Well, it just happens that my K20D came with a Japanese language owner's manual, so let's go straight to the source and check out that theory. The item in question reads:
適正露出が得られないときに自動補正をするか否はを設定する. (Tekisei roshutsu ga erarenai toki ni jidouhosei suru ka iya ka wo settei suru).
Nope....no problem there.