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# ETAMITLU – The Simplest Word Processor

Don’t ask me how to pronounce that word. Don’t ask what it means, either. If you know how my mind works, you won’t have to ask. If you don’t–well, you remember what Louie Armstrong said about jazz: “If you have to ask what it is, you wouldn’t understand the answer,”