say

A human may "say" things to a computer by typing them on a

terminal. "To list a directory verbosely, say "ls -l"."

Tends to imply a newline-terminated command (a "sentence").

A computer may "say" things to you, even if it doesn't have a

speech synthesiser, by displaying them on a terminal in

response to your commands. This usage often confuses

mundanes.

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