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Re:Why God Hates German Words by willyt on Sunday July 31, 2011 @05:37AM (#2827992)
In France the equivalent is the Académie française. So in French a computer is an Ordinateur, whereas in a lot of other languages it's derived from the English word. A few random examples: German: Computer. Spanish: Computadora. Scots Gaelic: Coimpiutair.

Edit: Oops Jacques beat me too it.

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Re:Why God Hates German Words by icebraining on Sunday July 31, 2011 @09:10AM (#2828253)
Actually, in European Spanish, "Ordenador" is way more common than "Computadora" (as an example, the former has 5 million results on Google for .es sites, while the latter has only just over 270k).
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