alt Hacker NewsWhy would wagon return make sense? I don’t see the connection. A carriage is something that holds things for transport. A wagon is specifically the wheeled thing that is pulled along. Typewriters aren’t wheeled transports.
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amszmidt • today at 5:56 AM
A carriage is a wagon that transports people, not "things", a carriage are also usually wheeled, just like wagons.
In this case, one reason why "wagon return" might have made more sense is because there is a wagon that holds the platen of the typewriter.
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GLdRH • today at 6:11 AM
Carriage is another word for wagon (german Wagen, swedish vagn)
It makes sense because it's the same word in Swedish, the distinction doesn't exist.