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Old 09-30-2012, 07:19 AM   #51
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Still indecisive? Let's try another approach. Here are the definitions of the words manual and automatic:

manual:
c.1400, from L. manualis "of or belonging to the hand; that can be thrown by hand," from manus "hand, strength, power over; armed force; handwriting," from PIE *man- (2) "hand" (cf. O.N. mund "hand," O.E. mund "hand, protection, guardian," Ger. Vormund "guardian," Gk. mane "hand").


automatic:
"self-acting, moving or acting on its own," 1812, from Gk. automatos, used of the gates of Olympus and the tripods of Hephaestus (also "without apparent cause, by accident"), from autos "self" (see auto-) + matos "thinking, animated" (see automaton). Of involuntary animal or human actions, from 1748, first used in this sense by English physician and philosopher David Hartley (1705-1757). In reference to a type of firearm, from 1877; specifically of machinery that imitates human-directed action from 1940.


Now then, which one of those sounds more fun?
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