cut/paste
Mark A Mandel
mam at THEWORLD.COM
Sat Jun 7 18:32:48 UTC 2003
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
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