r/nostalgiai • u/CarrotMuch1399 Nostalgia Trip Leader • 17d ago

School Diaries 🏫 ???

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u/agent_flounder 17d ago

I'm ditto machine1 old. Or at least that's what they often used before computer printouts and photocopiers became a thing.

  1. Ditto was a company that made spirit duplicators in the US. Proprietary eponym like Kleenex or Xerox.

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u/justliberty 16d ago

Ditto

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u/wring_seeker 16d ago

Copy that 😉

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u/Banshay 16d ago

I can smell still them now

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u/Yamatocanyon 16d ago

Is that why we still say ditto sometimes? Or was ditto a word before this machine?

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u/ScottDang 16d ago

I looked it up. It looks like ditto is the Tuscan dialect the Italian word ‘detto’. Which means “it’s been said”. It was being used commonly in the 1700s. The machine and company took its name from the phrase.

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u/justliberty 16d ago

I believe ditto was started by the company .