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And the term “computer” originally described a person who made calculations, not a machine. Etymology can be informative and revealing, but is hardly dispositiv

• gerdesj 3y ago
  Well put. You used inward facing quotes and deployed: "dispositive". Why not try out these two: “ ”. My English teacher, back in the day, described quotation marks as 66 and 99. Back then we used ink pens because the best effort that IT could manage was sodding expensive and not really a thing. We had Biros and those new fangled fibre tips ... I used to be able to wield an edged pen and write gothic black letter quite well and my italic was almost as good as my granddad's. Whoops, mind wanders off piste ...