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Re:Italian government seeks to penalize the use of English w... by fathyb on Monday April 03, 2023 @02:52AM (#35419488)
We had this debate in France in 1955. We use the word "ordinateur" for "computer", which comes from the latin "ordinator" which means something that order things, it shares the same root as the word "order".

It was picked over the word "calculateur" which is the French equivalent of "calculatore" after IBM France shared a letter wondering if "calculateur" was too restrictive and didn't properly express the machine capabilities. To which Jacques Perret answered "why not ordinateur?"

https://journals.openedition.org/bibnum/534

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Re:Italian government seeks to penalize the use of English w... by Fire-Dragon-DoL on Monday April 03, 2023 @02:58AM (#35419544)
It's kinda funny picturing either of those words as we play Dark Souls (videogame) on these devices. Yes of course that's "all math", still!
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