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		dagss on Feb 28, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Out of the Tar Pit (2006) [pdf] Related: The Norwegian word for "computer" is "datamaskin". Or, "data machine".

SilasX on March 1, 2023 [–]

And in the Romance languages, some variant of “ordinator”, meaning someone who orders, regulates, or arranges, closer to the tasks we actually expect of computers.

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