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When they did whatever they did to whatever version it was of Windows that they messed about with last time, one of the things they did was apparently to remove 'Paste' from the Windows Explorer right-click context menu in (I think that's what it's called). I spent several months tediously Ctrl+V-ing every time I needed to past a file into a different folder, before realising that the tiny hieroglyph at the top of the menu, which I had mistaken for a squashed gnat on my monitor, was in fact meant to represent a 'clipboard', meaning 'paste' (rather than 'note down answers to a usability survey to then be flushed down the toilet').

No other command had been transformed from comprehensible text to indecipherable pixellated artwork.

Why?

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Matthew Clapham
Matthew Clapham

Written by Matthew Clapham

Professional translator by day. Writer of silly and serious stuff by night. Also by day, when I get fed up of tedious translations. Founder of Iberospherical.

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