[Foundation-l] Ancient Greek Wikipedia

[Ilario Valdelli]

In your answer there is the answer.

"The Vatican, I believe, have invented a delightful Latin phrase for a 
computer"

This happens because there is an organization which requires to 
translate modern words because the Latin is a language still used.

Ilario

Christiano Moreschi wrote:
> Very true. 
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> As regards the necessity of using words from modern times that have no direct ancient Greek equivalents, it is always possible to use circumlocution. The Vatican, I believe, have invented a delightful Latin phrase for a computer. It's "instrumentum computatorium".
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> I love it.
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