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PraxisLD t1_jccwhlu wrote

Reply to comment by greenmachine11235 in TIL using ditto marks, or putting quotation marks under words to repeat what they say, goes back as far as the Neo-Assyrian period (934-608 B.C.) by [deleted]

Nobody works as hard as a lazy person trying to get out of some work…

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Not-a-Dog420 t1_jcd5bao wrote

They aren't lazy, they're efficient

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Set_the_Mighty t1_jcdruel wrote

Until some poor sod has to go through and translate some document full of ditto marks into a modern format for use in a database.

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KypDurron t1_jcdadm3 wrote

Necessity may be the mother of invention, but laziness is the father.

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