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
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
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.”
what the fuck that’s like a casual thing to say, how did a nerdlord get it into the common lexicon
I think it filtered through the medical professions.
dokkktors
DoKKKtor$$
dorktors
Death to America
Probably more specifically, daytime hospital dramas on television.
Nurse I need forty CCCPs of communism, stat
Wait til you hear about a person’s M O
moldy odor?
If only
True crime as a genre is enough to explain this one
Mode of Operation?
It actually stands for the Latin modus operandi, which means exactly that lol
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.
*around
arotundusnah 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
I use NB on my jira tickets to be a dick
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