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“Ordinateur” is so much better than “computer”! As Wiktionary puts it > From Latin ordinator (“one who orders”), from ōrdinō (“to order, to organize”). > In i
by abrowne 6y ago
“Ordinateur” is so much better than “computer”! As Wiktionary puts it
> From Latin ordinator (“one who orders”), from ōrdinō (“to order, to organize”).
> In its application to computing, it was coined by the professor of philology Jacques Perret […] who believed the word calculateur was too restrictive in light of the possibilities of these machines.
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ordinateur#Etymology https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ordinateur#Etymology
- aspyct 6y agoFunny you should say that. I speak French, and always thought Computer was better than Ordinateur (and yes, it's ordinatEur, it's not a dinosaur :D )
- abrowne 6y agoThanks for catching my typo. Fixed now. I guess the grass is always greener? And I come from a humanities background, so the information-organizing and communication uses of computer interest me the most. I can see someone from a more math-focused background preferring "computer" instead.