• snooggums@lemmy.world
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    They save their data to a solid stste disc that isn’t a disc by using the icon for a 3.5" floppy disc. They punch out at the end of the workday and fill out a timesheet later.

    Yeah, we use a lot of terms that are no longer literally true and kids know what it means even if they don’t know how the term originated.

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      The beauty of language is that you can understand without knowing what words mean