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		TimorousBestie 3 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Rouille – Rust Programming, in French L’ordinateur really should have caught on, it’s a pity. A beautiful word.

SiempreViernes 3 months ago [–]

Computer comes from French, so they could just have settled on pronouncing it properly and gotten on with their day, but nooo, gotta invent a new word for this very old french word.

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