• Tomek =?UTF-8?B?U293acWEc2tp?= <just ask.me> Oct 08 2010
• "Yao G." <yao.gomez spam.gmail.com> Oct 08 2010
• Jonathan M Davis <jmdavisProg gmx.com> Oct 08 2010
• bearophile <bearophileHUGS lycos.com> Oct 08 2010
• "Denis Koroskin" <2korden gmail.com> Oct 08 2010
• Jonathan M Davis <jmdavisProg gmx.com> Oct 08 2010

Tomek =?UTF-8?B?U293acWEc2tp?= <just ask.me> writes:

More of an English question...
dunno <- don't know
ditto <- ?

-- 
Tomek

"Yao G." <yao.gomez spam.gmail.com> writes:

On Fri, 08 Oct 2010 16:22:33 -0500, Tomek Sowi=C5=84ski <just ask.me> wr=
ote:

 More of an English question...
 dunno <- don't know
 ditto <- ?


http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ditto

ditto (plural dittos)
1. That which was stated before, the aforesaid, the above, the same.
2. (informal) A duplicate or copy of a document.

-- =

Yao G.

Jonathan M Davis <jmdavisProg gmx.com> writes:

On Friday, October 08, 2010 14:22:33 Tomek Sowi=C5=84ski wrote:
 More of an English question...
 dunno <- don't know
 ditto <- ?


It's a word in and of itself, not the shortening or butchering of another w=
ord.=20
According to merriam-webster.com ( http://www.merriam-
webster.com/dictionary/ditto ), it comes from Italian. It's the past partic=
iple=20
of the Italian word dire (to say) - which also happens to be the French wor=
d for=20
to say, but French has a different past participle.

=2D Jonathan M Davis

bearophile <bearophileHUGS lycos.com> writes:

Jonathan M Davis:

 It's the past participle of the Italian word dire (to say)


It was, a long time ago. Today it's "detto".

Bye,
bearophile

"Denis Koroskin" <2korden gmail.com> writes:

On Sat, 09 Oct 2010 01:22:33 +0400, Tomek Sowi=C5=84ski <just ask.me> wr=
ote:

 More of an English question...
 dunno <- don't know
 ditto <- ?


Ditto is used to indicate that something already said is applicable a  =

second time.
In documentation, "ditto" means that previous comment also applies here.=
  =

Here is an example:

/// helper function
void doStuff();

/// ditto (i.e. helper function)
void doOtherStuff();

Jonathan M Davis <jmdavisProg gmx.com> writes:

On Friday, October 08, 2010 15:17:13 bearophile wrote:
 Jonathan M Davis:
 It's the past participle of the Italian word dire (to say)


 It was, a long time ago. Today it's "detto".
 
 Bye,
 bearophile


Good to know. I was just going by what Merriam Webster had to say on that one.
I 
know French but not Italian.

- Jonathan M Davis