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OT Gender pay gap
On 20/01/2018 11:51, wrote:
On Saturday, 20 January 2018 11:29:25 UTC, tim... wrote:
"dennis@home" wrote in message
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On 20/01/2018 11:08, Tim Streater wrote:
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We shouldn't be giving currency to these non-words, even if lazy ****s
like T i m think they are able to produce references for them.
You shouldn't be posting here then as computers, usenet, etc. don't exist.
I remember when I first started my interest in computing I was told by
school teachers that the word "program" didn't exist (in UK English)
Now, if you you told someone that, they would look at you like you had
claimed to have just arrived from Mars.
tim
The word 'Computer' is from the 1640s.
Except its association with calculating 'machine' comes much later, late
19th Century?
Up to then, anyone able to add up could be called a 'computer'.
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