What d'you call it when you take a page and make a replica of it with a machine?

[WritingIsMyReligion]

Do you Xerox? Copy? Something else? I've never heard anyone under 30, at least, say "I'll be right back--I've got to make a Xerox of this." I think that's part of the flack for Hillary's line there tonight, particularly on a college campus--no one "Xeroxes" anything anymore.

For the record, I make copies. :evilgrin:

[Lavender Brown]

1. I'm under 30 and I xerox...

I must be retro. B-)

[many a good man]

2. Scan. Or copy.

And I remember "dittoes," too!

[WritingIsMyReligion]

4. For series?

What the hell is that?

:rofl:

[Xipe Totec]

6. Can you ditto your butt?

:evilgrin:

[many a good man]

10. No way! Those suckers used to get real hot.

Talking about boiling monkeys bums!

[Xipe Totec]

12. Ah, that explains everything!

[Richardo]

5. Mmmmmmm mimeograph fumes....

</homerdrool>

[MorningGlow]

15. Hee when I was a teacher

The ONE year I spent teaching high school, I wasn't very smart about a lot of things, but one of the things I knew enough to do was to pause a moment after handing out freshly made dittos--you know, the ones fresh out of the teacher's lounge, so damp they curled lengthwise--in order to give the kids time to INHALE DEEPLY. Once they all had purple on the tips of their noses, I began the lesson.

[Richardo]

17. I'd say you were plenty smart...

:rofl:

[Richardo]

3. I swear to god I worked with a guy in the 80s who called it "the pitcher-takin' machine"

It's not like he was a very old guy, either. Besides, I've never heard anyone else of any age call it that. :dunce:

I, for the record, call it a copy, done on a copier.

[Cabcere]

7. For a second there I thought this was going to be a Mark Foley joke

:hide:


OK, now it's time for the obligatory "The WritingMeister!" joke:

[MassLiberal]

8. photocopy

Older than 30, for the record.

Remember dittos as well, and, yes, mimeographs! (SNIFF!!!!)

[rurallib]

9. Mimeo?

for us very old farts

[merh]

11. reproduce - duplicate

I stopped using "cc:" or "xc:" at the end of my letters a long time ago. I just use a "c:" if I send a copy of the letter to another.

[LostinVA]

13. Xerox or copy

Haruka uses both too, and she just turned 25 yesterday.

[Oeditpus Rex]

14. Plagiarism

:rofl:

[GirlinContempt]

16. a photocopy.

[Dr. Strange]

18. Plagiarism.

Reference
Oeditpus Rex, post #14, DU Lounge, 2008.

[Rabrrrrrr]

19. I'm in my 40s, and I photocopy or copy. But then, I also make gelatin, use facial tissues,

and play with flying discs, unless I'm actually making Jell-O, using Kleenex, or am throwing a Frisbee.

But I do use Band-Aids, no matter what brand the little sticky things with the cotton gauze used on wounds is.

[northzax]

20. actually, I work in a cathedral

so we use monks. But seriously, did anyone not get what she was talking about? Really?

[begin_within]

21. Counterfeiting

[Blue_In_AK]

22. Xerox

or "makin' copies."

[Deep13]

23. Dry printing is called "xerography."

So, I made xerox duplicates. "Duplicates", mechanically produced to be identical to originals, are admissible in court. "Copies" are not. The historic meaning of "copy" is to rewrite an original by hand.

[TZ]

24. This?

Copycat!

[1gobluedem]

25. Photocopy

Xerox is a brand name, not a process. I'm a stickler....:)