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/ Message reply created with The Bat! 5.1.6.7 under Windows XP 5.1 Build 2600 Service Pack 3 ________________________________________________________ Current beta is 5.2.1.1 | 'Using TBBETA' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html