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minus-squarebrenstar@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up90·3 days agoMade me curious as to what they used to say and looked it up: “eidetic memory”
minus-squareElectricblush@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up56·3 days agoI checked the comments just to make sure someone mentioned eidetic memory. The “um achually” approach is to point out that “eidetic” is actually the correct term and that “photographic” is a colloquialism.
minus-squaredwindling7373@feddit.itlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up19·3 days agoLet me offer you the real “um achtually”: books were a thing. A literary memory would be a colloquial equivalence to photographic.
minus-squareBumblefumble@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up23·2 days ago First recorded in 1920–25; from Greek eidētikós, equivalent to eîd(os) eidos + -ētikos -etic — Dictionary.com So this word is actually younger than the camera it seems like.
minus-squareMajorMajormajormajor@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up10·2 days agoI can never remember that word. Sure makes it awkward in conversation: “I have one of idiomatic memories or whatever, can’t remember what it’s called.”
minus-squarelugal@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down1·2 days agoIf you had a photographic memory, you could just remember the spelling
minus-squaredwindling7373@feddit.itlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down2·2 days agoNo it’s not. It references the fact that photography wasn’t a thing yet.
minus-squareMajorMajormajormajor@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up2·1 day agoYes, the original post is about that. I was making a joke about bragging about having a photographic memory but forgetting the word.
minus-squaredwindling7373@feddit.itlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 day agoO yea true I got lost. Weird since I’m magnetorientatological.
minus-squareBeMoreCareful@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·3 days agoI’m so happy you looked it up. Now I can see how it’s spelled. Also, I’m pretty sure I was mispronouncing it. Nope, after googling, I think I had invented a word that didn’t exist. I thought it was didetic.
minus-squareBarqsHasBite@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·3 days agoInteresting I never thought about why there are two terms for it.
Made me curious as to what they used to say and looked it up: “eidetic memory”
I checked the comments just to make sure someone mentioned eidetic memory.
The “um achually” approach is to point out that “eidetic” is actually the correct term and that “photographic” is a colloquialism.
Let me offer you the real “um achtually”: books were a thing. A literary memory would be a colloquial equivalence to photographic.
— Dictionary.com
So this word is actually younger than the camera it seems like.
I can never remember that word. Sure makes it awkward in conversation: “I have one of idiomatic memories or whatever, can’t remember what it’s called.”
If you had a photographic memory, you could just remember the spelling
Yes, that’s the joke.
No it’s not. It references the fact that photography wasn’t a thing yet.
Yes, the original post is about that. I was making a joke about bragging about having a photographic memory but forgetting the word.
O yea true I got lost. Weird since I’m magnetorientatological.
I’m so happy you looked it up. Now I can see how it’s spelled. Also, I’m pretty sure I was mispronouncing it.
Nope, after googling, I think I had invented a word that didn’t exist. I thought it was didetic.
Interesting I never thought about why there are two terms for it.