• GnastyGnuts [he/him]
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    4 months ago

    Get Hilldawg on that ticket, stat. Also I just found out stat is short for statim in that context, which is just Latin for "immediately."

    • Dolores [love/loves]
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      4 months ago

      what the fuck that's like a casual thing to say, how did a nerdlord get it into the common lexicon

      • regul [any]
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        4 months ago

        I think it filtered through the medical professions.

      • Chump [he/him]
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        4 months ago

        Wait til you hear about a person’s M O

      • BurgerPunk [he/him, comrade/them]
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        4 months ago

        I think its from medical terminology. I'm going to guess it was popularized by the 90's show ER. I'm pulling this cimpletely out of my ass, but that's my guess

      • Owl [he/him]
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        4 months ago

        There's plenty of gratuitous Latin to go around, e.g: ie, etc.

        There's Latin gratuito plenitati to go around, exempli gratia: id est, et cetera.

        • Dolores [love/loves]
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          4 months ago

          *around arotundus nerd

          nah but when you're i.e.-ing, et ceterin' you know you're being technical or formal. latin via french (plenty, round, gratuity) is a different category because it conforms to english grammar, it doesn't signal literacy & culture you gotta do modern french for that