Friday, December 04, 2015

stet stat stet


Stet. "Let it stand," in Latin, meaning: one makes an edit and then has second or third thoughts and concludes, "Disregard the change; let it stay as it was originally. I erred in judgment. My bad. Proceed as you were proceeding." A nifty do-over tool. Would that we could shout it out after the wrong word has been spoken to the wrong person at the wrong time with the wrong tone. Stet! Perhaps we'd even be able to add a "stat," a call for immediate action, just before they place the paddles on the chest to try to revive the human heart. Stat! [short for statim, in Latin, the adverb for "immediately"] You hear it on TV medical dramas all the time. Oh yeah. Stat stet. Or stet stat! 

If only.

4 comments:

ron said...

agree

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I took very bad tickets yesterday. It was no way a bargain. Later on I though ti could done differently!((( It have overpaid! but having read your blog - "Stet it"!!)

Unknown said...

uhuhh

Pawlie Kokonuts said...

Thanks for chiming in, commenters.

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