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Re:How a comment on Hacker News led to 4½ new Unicode charac... by et-al on Thursday June 23, 2016 @01:35PM (#11962862)
计算着 [jisuanji] is the older usage that harkens back to the days when computers were mainframes and terminals and not in every household. Generally everyone says 电脑 [diannao] these days.
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Re:How a comment on Hacker News led to 4½ new Unicode charac... by ximeng on Thursday June 23, 2016 @03:42PM (#11963801)
计算机 jisuanji would be a hardware computer, 计算着 jisuanzhe computing as an ongoing action, and 计算者 jisuanzhe computer in the sense of one who computes
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