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Jauks/jakes made some sense, but the connection to {{wp|Jacquard_loom|Jacquard}} seems tenuous (and anachronistic). --[[User:Old Dickens|Old Dickens]] 00:13, 7 June 2011 (CEST)
Jauks/jakes made some sense, but the connection to {{wp|Jacquard_loom|Jacquard}} seems tenuous (and anachronistic). --[[User:Old Dickens|Old Dickens]] 00:13, 7 June 2011 (CEST)
 
:Now that's interesting... makes more sense and has more evidence going for it than my leap of semantics, which did ''feel'' right. Maybe a rewrite and a suggestion HEX might be involved at some level? (Is there a reference soemwhere to punched cards in a HEX context?) --[[User:AgProv|AgProv]] 14:13, 7 June 2011 (CEST)
Now that's interesting... makes more sense and has more evidence going for it than my leap of semantics, which did ''feel'' right. Maybe a rewrite and a suggestion HEX might be involved at some level? (Is there a reference soemwhere to punched cards in a HEX context?) --[[User:AgProv|AgProv]] 14:13, 7 June 2011 (CEST)
I mean the connection between "jacquards" (punch cards in either universe) and "jakes" (a potty, loo, gazunda, etc.) is hard to find and could use a reference. --[[User:Old Dickens|Old Dickens]] ([[User talk:Old Dickens|talk]]) 04:13, 31 December 2018 (UTC)

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Jauks/jakes made some sense, but the connection to Jacquard seems tenuous (and anachronistic). --Old Dickens 00:13, 7 June 2011 (CEST)

Now that's interesting... makes more sense and has more evidence going for it than my leap of semantics, which did feel right. Maybe a rewrite and a suggestion HEX might be involved at some level? (Is there a reference soemwhere to punched cards in a HEX context?) --AgProv 14:13, 7 June 2011 (CEST)

I mean the connection between "jacquards" (punch cards in either universe) and "jakes" (a potty, loo, gazunda, etc.) is hard to find and could use a reference. --Old Dickens (talk) 04:13, 31 December 2018 (UTC)