cut/paste

[Mark A Mandel]

On Sat, 7 Jun 2003, Laurence Horn wrote:

#At 1:40 PM -0400 6/7/03, James A. Landau wrote:
#>
#>"cut and paste" long antedates computers.  It originally meant exactly what
#>it says---to move things around in a typewritten or handwritten document, you
#>cut out the words with scissors or a knife and then pasted them with paste or
#>cement where you wanted them to go.

Am I the only one who notices when people say this in a computer context
when they really mean "copy and paste"?

-- Mark A. Mandel