# This. Word.
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-word/458742
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [August 3, 2008, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-word/458742 "2008-08-03T21:40:35Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@fortytwo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fortytwo)
#### Post date: [August 3, 2008, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-word/458742/1 "2008-08-03T21:40:35Z")
As an answer to a post. What’s it all about then?
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### Author:  [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)
#### Post date: [August 3, 2008, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-word/458742/2 "2008-08-03T21:43:11Z")
That the responder is in emphatic agreement with what he or she has just quoted or posted directly below.
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### Author:  [@Q.E.D](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.E.D)
#### Post date: [August 3, 2008, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-word/458742/3 "2008-08-03T21:45:02Z")
[QUOTE=IvoryTowerDenizen]
That the responder is in emphatic agreement with what he or she has just quoted or posted directly below.
[/QUOTE]
And is also unpardonably lazy.
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### Author:  [@ultrafilter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ultrafilter)
#### Post date: [August 3, 2008, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-word/458742/4 "2008-08-03T21:50:54Z")
[QUOTE=Q.E.D.]
And is also unpardonably lazy.
[/QUOTE]
This. Word.
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### Author:  [@descamisado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/descamisado)
#### Post date: [August 3, 2008, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-word/458742/5 "2008-08-03T21:52:40Z")
[QUOTE=ultrafilter]
This. Word.
[/QUOTE]
Co-sign.
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### Author:  [@Q.E.D](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.E.D)
#### Post date: [August 3, 2008, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-word/458742/6 "2008-08-03T21:53:36Z")
I think my head just asploded.
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### Author:  [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)
#### Post date: [August 3, 2008, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-word/458742/7 "2008-08-03T21:55:36Z")
“I agree completely with everything in this post, which I will indicate by quoting all 12 paragraphs of it and adding only a single word of my own, offering no further opinion.”
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### Author:  [@Q.E.D](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.E.D)
#### Post date: [August 3, 2008, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-word/458742/8 "2008-08-03T21:58:42Z")
[QUOTE=Marley23]
“I agree completely with everything in this post, which I will indicate by quoting all 12 paragraphs of it and adding only a single word of my own, offering no further opinion.”
[/QUOTE]
+1
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### Author:  [@Rich\_Mann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rich_Mann)
#### Post date: [August 3, 2008, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-word/458742/9 "2008-08-03T22:04:39Z")
[QUOTE=Q.E.D.]
+1
[/QUOTE]
Me too!
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### Author:  [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)
#### Post date: [August 3, 2008, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-word/458742/10 "2008-08-03T22:13:18Z")
[QUOTE=Rich Mann]
Me too!
[/QUOTE]
ditto, tritto and quaditto!
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### Author:  [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)
#### Post date: [August 3, 2008, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-word/458742/11 "2008-08-03T22:16:11Z")
[QUOTE=IvoryTowerDenizen]
ditto, tritto and quaditto!
[/QUOTE]
TLDR.
Is that all of them? This thread is making my eye twitch.
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### Author:  [@ivan\_astikov](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivan_astikov)
#### Post date: [August 3, 2008, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-word/458742/12 "2008-08-03T22:17:28Z")
- backs out of thread slowly, so as not to alert resident lunatics \* 😃
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### Author:  [@Q.E.D](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.E.D)
#### Post date: [August 3, 2008, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-word/458742/13 "2008-08-03T22:18:05Z")
[QUOTE=Marley23]
TLDR.
Is that all of them? This thread is making my eye twitch.
[/QUOTE]
no u
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### Author:  [@Hockey\_Monkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hockey_Monkey)
#### Post date: [August 3, 2008, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-word/458742/14 "2008-08-03T22:38:51Z")
[QUOTE=Marley23]
“I agree completely with everything in this post, which I will indicate by quoting all 12 paragraphs of it and adding only a single word of my own, offering no further opinion.”
[/QUOTE]
Guilty. But only when the poster has covered everything I was going to say and I couldn’t say it better if I tried.
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### Author:  [@Q.E.D](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.E.D)
#### Post date: [August 3, 2008, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-word/458742/15 "2008-08-03T22:40:55Z")
[QUOTE=Hockey Monkey]
Guilty. But only when the poster has covered everything I was going to say and I couldn’t say it better if I tried.
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Then why not say that? Put some effort into your agreement, ferchrissakes!
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### Author:  [@picunurse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/picunurse)
#### Post date: [August 3, 2008, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-word/458742/16 "2008-08-03T22:43:30Z")
[QUOTE=ultrafilter]
This. Word.
[/QUOTE]
What she said.
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### Author:  [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)
#### Post date: [August 3, 2008, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-word/458742/17 "2008-08-03T22:48:54Z")
[QUOTE=Q.E.D.]
no u
[/QUOTE]
I geddit!
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### Author:  [@fortytwo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fortytwo)
#### Post date: [August 3, 2008, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-word/458742/18 "2008-08-03T22:51:55Z")
OK, got it for “This” but what about “Word”?
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### Author:  [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)
#### Post date: [August 3, 2008, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-word/458742/19 "2008-08-03T22:55:08Z")
[QUOTE=Vetch]
OK, got it for “This” but what about “Word”?
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Same-- as in “The Word”- or, to put in another way, what was just posted is “truth”. Or, another interpretation is that what was said should be requoted word-for-word.
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### Author:  [@Q.E.D](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.E.D)
#### Post date: [August 3, 2008, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-word/458742/20 "2008-08-03T22:56:01Z")
[QUOTE=Vetch]
OK, got it for “This” but what about “Word”?
[/QUOTE]
Shit, boy, that predates the internet by several years.
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