• 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