Hello Mark,

Saturday, August 25, 2012, 10:49:55 PM, you wrote:

>>> Idem  Dito  (still  wonder  why the English were more influenced by the 
>>> Italians than by the latin language and thus say
>>> "ditto").

L>> Well, in latin it should be "dictus".

MP> [This  starts  to  smell  fishy :-) ]

MP> Perhaps  I  was  not clear enough; unless I am mistaken, the
MP> "idem dito" WE are using comes from the Latin "idem dicto",
MP> which was not used by the Romans, but more recently, in (mostly) 
administrative texts.

MP> That's  what  intrigues  me: why did the English start to use the
MP> Tuscan variant (ditto) of the Italian detto?  It seems
MP> to  me that "ditto" was introduced in England at about the same
MP> time "idem dicto" was used over here, but both developed
MP> independent from one another.

MP> Ditto is not being used in Dutch.

We use "dito" in German.

In academia, we use "ibid." (in English texts) - I don't know where this came 
from.

-- 

Cheers,
Thomas.

http://thomas.fernandez.hat-gar-keine-homepage.de/

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