Post #1501655
2023-10-02 23:28 UTC
Replies (37)
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@Hoi_Pollois@toad.social 2023-10-03 03:36
@oseiler@mastodon.nz thanks! I had no idea. ⛔💡
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@riley@toot.cat 2023-10-03 11:47
@oseiler@mastodon.nz Er, isn't merda a neo-Latin word? Surely, Classic Latinist used something like poopus ?
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@StrangeNoises@mastodon.social 2023-10-03 12:01
@oseiler@mastodon.nz nice bit of etmology…
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@richard@walking.masto.host 2023-10-03 12:12
@oseiler@mastodon.nz Eh merde. ;-) Still in use today. ;-)
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@Crochetcat@mindly.social 2023-10-03 12:40
@oseiler@mastodon.nz Insult people while sounding all cultured and stuff? I’m in 😉
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@rudy@mstdn.ca 2023-10-03 14:26
@oseiler@mastodon.nz faux latin "But "etm." isn't an existing Latin abbreviation, because "et merda" is not a Latin phrase: it's a calque (word-for-word translation) of the English idiom "and shit" into Latin.: -- https://www.reddit.com/r/latin/comments/10cd860/validityhistorical_support_for_et_merda_or_etm/
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@tezoatlipoca@mas.to 2023-10-03 15:50
@oseiler@mastodon.nz I don't care whether or not this is entirely legit or not, Im using it.
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@slash@cdrom.tokyo 2023-10-03 15:56
@oseiler@mastodon.nz party, etm., party, etm…
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@ojrask@piipitin.fi 2023-10-03 17:34
@oseiler@mastodon.nz ah nice, been wanting to diversify my writing because "etc." gets repetitive real quick.
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@stadsplanering@mastodon.nu 2023-10-03 17:38
@oseiler@mastodon.nz Oh I love this. Saw it a while ago and it’s one of few things I’ve screenshot. 😍😍
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@fae2535@mstdn.social 2023-10-03 17:50
@oseiler@mastodon.nz Wherever it is or isn't from, I like it and will use it. Bored with etc. and etm.
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@JoelBarr@mastodon.online 2023-10-03 17:50
@oseiler@mastodon.nz and remember, Semper ubi sub ubi.
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@grownz@sueden.social 2023-10-03 17:55
@oseiler@mastodon.nz I don't know if that's true or not, but i'll use that :D
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@Jeremiah@alpaca.gold 2023-10-03 18:02
@oseiler@mastodon.nz This checks. https://www.reddit.com/r/latin/comments/10cd860/validityhistorical_support_for_et_merda_or_etm/
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@Zotmeister@mastodon.online 2023-10-03 19:45
@oseiler@mastodon.nz How has no one else at-ted @pluralistic@mamot.fr in this yet? He could use this in literally every article he writes.
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@deejunfazed@tech.lgbt 2023-10-03 19:50
Adding "&m" to my everyday written vocab. Thankyou @oseiler@mastodon.nz
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@Hovedorganet@mstdn.dk 2023-10-03 19:58
@oseiler@mastodon.nz http://acronyms.thefreedictionary.com/ETM
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@futzle@old.mermaid.town 2023-10-03 20:15
@pinknantucket@theblower.au 👆🏻 RTYI
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@mjfgates@wandering.shop 2023-10-03 20:48
@oseiler@mastodon.nz yup, you've expanded Latin all righty 😆
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@Jason_Dodd@mastodon.social 2023-10-03 21:49
@oseiler@mastodon.nz I had 4 years of Latin in high school. We didn't cover this.
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@f3ve@mastodon.social 2023-10-03 22:36
@oseiler@mastodon.nz 🤣 Love this.
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@shqippy@deacon.social 2023-10-03 22:50
@oseiler@mastodon.nz Well, doggie!
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@suqdiq@chaos.social 2023-10-03 23:48
@oseiler@mastodon.nz bela merda
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@martin_piper@mastodon.social 2023-10-04 01:38
@oseiler@mastodon.nz https://www.reddit.com/r/latin/comments/10cd860/validityhistorical_support_for_et_merda_or_etm/
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@LiKao@mastodon.social 2023-10-04 02:33
@oseiler@mastodon.nz Unfortunate that it probably won’t be understood by my friends on the internet, because I suddenly have a fierce temptation to include it in my lexicon. Et merda. Glorious.
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@deeplyaware@mastodon.online 2023-10-04 03:23
@oseiler@mastodon.nz that’s cool etm.
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@arne_d_h@snabelen.no 2023-10-04 06:05
@oseiler@mastodon.nz eRate. (et Robertus avunculus tuus est)
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@WhyNotZoidberg@topspicy.social 2023-10-04 07:02
@oseiler@mastodon.nz You should learn new stuff etm.
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@Antiroo@yiff.life 2023-10-04 11:40
@oseiler@mastodon.nz Hate to be the bearer of bad news, but that's not really an arrested idiom in Latin, Merdaque is what you'd say and the abbreviation would look like merdaq I think these real examples of funny Latin phrases may be more interesting to you. The first highlighted "ut merdas edatis" = "In other words, you can eat shit" "non miror, merdas si libet esse cani" I'm not impressed. Shit, if they want it, they can eat the dog's"
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@knf100@sfba.social 2023-10-04 19:52
@oseiler@mastodon.nz this is very good etm @michaelcoyote@mastodon.social
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@ragingrobot@fosstodon.org 2023-10-04 22:10
@oseiler@mastodon.nz Thanks. I like posts like this, so like to learn, etm.
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@decio@infosec.exchange 2023-10-05 06:16
@oseiler@mastodon.nz expanded thx 😆 👍 so etm. is the adaptation of a modern English idiom similar to (and in the manner) of the much more vulgar Italian "ad mentula canis"...
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@neverlander@mastodon.social 2023-10-05 11:25
@oseiler@mastodon.nz such useful lexical items works well in daily life. :D Thanks. :D
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@RupertReynolds@hachyderm.io 2023-10-05 12:49
@oseiler@mastodon.nz I was watching an old Morse (Who Killed Harry Field) snd found ventosa viri restahbit and, as well as the "when toes are weary rest a bit" thing, it turns out that it translates roughly as "farts hang around" :-)
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@muthanight@universeodon.com 2023-10-05 21:01
@oseiler@mastodon.nz That may be the most useful thing anyone has shared today… many thanks… Etm.
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@etschneider@fediscience.org 2023-10-07 18:18
@oseiler@mastodon.nz and it sounds very close to the current French "Et merde" (and not like the "Eh merde" I read earlier in this thread) 😁
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@simonwilliamson@mastodon.world 2023-10-10 11:47
@oseiler@mastodon.nz I should try that for an event which will happen in just over two months: "Felix dies nativitatis etm.!"