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Re:The Guardians of the French Language Are Deadlocked by robocat on Sunday March 31, 2019 @11:20PM (#19540176)
Spanish (in Spain) is El ordenador - I'm guessing mimicking the French?

Lovely comment on some of the different words for computer in a variety of languages:

https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/Talk:computer

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Re:The Guardians of the French Language Are Deadlocked by gonzus on Monday April 01, 2019 @05:57AM (#19541818)
To complicate things even further, although "ordenador" may be the official word in Spanish for "computer", it is merrily ignored in many countries, which simply will use the atrocious neologism "computador". I know, I do. :-)
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Re:The Guardians of the French Language Are Deadlocked by harperlee on Monday April 01, 2019 @09:35AM (#19543051)
But doesn’t this directly follow the latin computare?
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