The Modernization of Emacs: terminology buffer and keybinding

[Joost Kremers]

bbound at gmail.com wrote:
> Don't both "man" and those words for measurement come ultimately from
> words for "hand" (similarly to words like "manual", as in labor)?

no. "manual" is derived from latin "manus" meaning "hand". the word "man"
is related to (though not directly derived from) "mind", and the latin word
"mens", which means "mind".


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Joost Kremers                                      joostkremers at yahoo.com
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