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theplutosys t1_jdvlo2y wrote

Reply to comment by theembodimentoffat in At the bar last night, a woman got her nipple pierced right in front of me by faithless_serene

As an American, allow me to ditto this question

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Iz-kan-reddit t1_jdwmkm4 wrote

Grandpa, what's a ditto?

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E420CDI t1_jdx3962 wrote

It's what you stick in a sentence to aid and quicken its climax

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theplutosys t1_jdwtwi3 wrote

?

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Iz-kan-reddit t1_jdwuu6d wrote

Hey, you're the one that used the term.

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theplutosys t1_jdwww16 wrote

I don’t get what you are asking. The definition of ditto?

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Iz-kan-reddit t1_jdwzhpd wrote

It was a play on "what's a computer?"

Many would say that the term came from the purple copies that smelled oh so good back in the old days.

Not my best work.

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Mikesaidit36 t1_jdxej3g wrote

Those smelly slightly damp blue/purple copies were mimeographs. I’m old enough to remember seeing a hand crank machine in an office somewhere with somebody cracking up smelly copies. Different than xeroxes. But I’m just realizing I’ve known what the word ditto means all along without knowing what it comes from.

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Iz-kan-reddit t1_jdxkwxg wrote

>But I’m just realizing I’ve known what the word ditto means all along without knowing what it comes from.

The term ditto for a mimiograph copy actually comes from the term ditto, which comes from Latin though Italian. Just a little tidbit I finally happened to learn a couple of years ago after half a century on this Earth. I had always had the same assumption as you.

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Fabulous_Brother2991 t1_jdz5ems wrote

Remember that lovely smell of those fresh warm mimeograghed papers.... mmmmmm!

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Mikesaidit36 t1_jdzkr48 wrote

Probably highly carcinogenic like everything that seems so great at first

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ArchemedesRex t1_jdx9bbb wrote

A typographical copy that uses blue ink and a stencil, in a machine

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Iz-kan-reddit t1_jdxeb1d wrote

You left out the sweet, sweet solvent.

The sound of the teacher's clack-clack-clack on the hallway floor returning from the teacher's lounge would start a pavlovian tingle in your nose in anticipation.

It almost made up for getting the last one, which was only vaguely legible because the master was running out.

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Roswyne t1_jdx9m6h wrote

Ditto is Dot's brother.

Don't you read Hi and Lois?

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Iz-kan-reddit t1_jdxduqp wrote

I vaguely remember that. Are you sure you're not a great grandparent? :)

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Luked0g44O t1_jdxsjoa wrote

DOTTIE’S brother. Dot and Dash would be siblings.

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kit630 t1_jdye30w wrote

And as an American also, I second this ditto.

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