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Isn't that the same in most languages though? For instance in English "electronic mail" became "e-mail", which became "email". "Web log" became "weblog", whic
by JimDabell 10y ago
Isn't that the same in most languages though? For instance in English "electronic mail" became "e-mail", which became "email". "Web log" became "weblog", which became "blog". "Cellular phone" became "cell phone".
- vidarh 10y agoAnd indeed in older books and articles it is not unusual to see people writing "electronic brain" to refer to a computer. A lot of non-English words for computer terms in various languages are translations of outdated English terms for the same that stuck around after the English terms changed.
- TillE 10y agoEnglish tends to sneakily disguise its words with Latin or Greek. So you may not think about the literal meaning of a word like "predict", while in German "vorhersagen" (to say before) is the exact same thing, just more obvious.