Re:Interview with Keith Blount, Creator of Scrivener
by swayvil on Saturday November 26, 2022 @06:26PM
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"Scriviner" is onomatopoeiatic. It's the sound of quill pens scratching away.
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Re:Interview with Keith Blount, Creator of Scrivener
by mattkrause on Sunday November 27, 2022 @01:37AM
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This is the first time I’ve ever seen that suggested, but it does make a bit of sense. That said, a scrivener was an occupation: a professional copyist or clerk,
like Bartleby the Scrivener.
It’s from Old French escrivain (same meaning) which is in turn from Latin scribere (“to write”), which might be from proto-Indo-European “skribh-“ which is a stem for cutting or separating.