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My dictionary defines manuscript as something written by hand rather than typed. Not exactly something that illuminates the usage in scientific literature
by wodenokoto 7y ago
My dictionary defines manuscript as something written by hand rather than typed.
Not exactly something that illuminates the usage in scientific literature
- inimino 7y agoDoesn't it though? If you look at the etymology, manus (hand) + script (write) directly gives you "hand-written", and then a hand-written document is more likely to be the work of a single author, more likely to refer to an original than a copy, and more likely to be old (before printing, typewriters, or computers). Everything else is just associations that a word picks up over time or in a specific community.