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Well, it's masked. Computer = something/someone who computes. And compute itself is from to set together. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/compute#English

For car, an older word was automobile.

When it comes to adaptivity, instead of glueing words together (like German or Chinese).

The strength of English (well, excluding political/economic consequences) is the easiness of borrowing words from other languages.



> Computer = something/someone who computes

Why isn't it?...

* Computer = someone who computes

* Computor = something that computes




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