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Re:The Guardians of the French Language Are Deadlocked by makapuf on Monday April 01, 2019 @07:34AM (#19542293)
For all words the equivalent of computer - "ordinateur" was invented by académie française from a sollicitation of IBM and it stuck. Everyone uses this word now.
Re:The Guardians of the French Language Are Deadlocked by p0nce on Monday April 01, 2019 @08:29AM (#19542588)
Yes, this is national pride about this one word that stuck, but here is what "ordiner" is: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holy_orders

Meanwhile the rest of the world use a word that refers to computation, and french has even a "computationnel" word because "ordinateur" doesn't make much sense. A computer is not something that gives holy orders.

Re:The Guardians of the French Language Are Deadlocked by 0815test on Monday April 01, 2019 @08:39AM (#19542651)
> A computer is not something that gives holy orders.

Unless it's running HolyC and TempleOS, of course! Rust and RedoxOS may be the best human-made solutions, but a computer with TempleOS is the only true "ordinateur", because it directly communes with G-d.