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Ha! Have to laugh at one sentence in particular

> candidates are assessed in a number of ways, but one is via a decidedly non-digital method – the Japanese art of paper folding, origami.

As fingers are anatomical digits, folding using a non-digital method made me imagine people trying to fold paper using their elbows — and non-dominant elbow at that.

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Haha that's actually really interesting- I feel like I've seen other examples like that, where a words meaning changes to the point where it's original meaning is novel, but I can't think of any off hand.

Other than the silicon valley "there's also that movie 'Armageddon'"

I can't imagine using the word "delete" except in association with computers.

The return key is a good example that only makes sense with a typewriter.

Also “press” applies to media when they don’t really do any pressing of prints.

Manual means related to the hands. So manual labour is working with one’s hands or a manual transmission is operated with one’s hand. Also manuals are the keyboards on an organ where you put your hands (but don’t you pull out stops with your hands…)

However it is also easy to think of manual as being the opposite of automatic—something could be manually operated or a computer system might have manual overrides.

Was a transmission referred to as manual transmission before automatic transmissions became a thing? I'd tend to think the transmission use of manual was specifically to designate it not being automatic.

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