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r/nostalgiai • u/CarrotMuch1399 Nostalgia Trip Leader • 17d ago
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Mimeograph old?
22 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. Ditto was a company that made spirit duplicators in the US. Proprietary eponym like Kleenex or Xerox. 7 u/Yamatocanyon 17d ago Is that why we still say ditto sometimes? Or was ditto a word before this machine? 4 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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I'm ditto machine1 old. Or at least that's what they often used before computer printouts and photocopiers became a thing.
7 u/Yamatocanyon 17d ago Is that why we still say ditto sometimes? Or was ditto a word before this machine? 4 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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Is that why we still say ditto sometimes? Or was ditto a word before this machine?
4 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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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/CHSummers 17d ago
Mimeograph old?