Subdeacon Joe Posted August 25 Share Posted August 25 My wife heard something on the telly that roused her curiosity and so she looked up "The Desk Set," a Tracy/Hepburn film. She sent me the Wikipedia pice on it,. This kind of jumped out at me (and was the relevant part of what she was trying to find): "The computer referred to as EMERAC is a homoiophone metonym for ENIAC ("Electronic Numerical Integrator And Computer"), which was developed in the 1940s and was the first electronic general-purpose computer." "Homoiophone metonym" - I'd never seen nor heard that phrase before, but, thanks to a grounding in English, and where it came from, along with a bit of Trinitarian dogma, I had no problem knowing what it meant. An iota of difference, indeed. 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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