Now vs. 1815
Now vs. 1815
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Made me curious as to what they used to say and looked it up: "eidetic memory"
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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.
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Let me offer you the real "um achtually": books were a thing. A literary memory would be a colloquial equivalence to photographic.
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First recorded in 1920–25; from Greek eidētikós, equivalent to eîd(os) eidos + -ētikos -etic
So this word is actually younger than the camera it seems like.
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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."
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If you had a photographic memory, you could just remember the spelling
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Yes, that's the joke.
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No it's not. It references the fact that photography wasn't a thing yet.
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Yes, the original post is about that. I was making a joke about bragging about having a photographic memory but forgetting the word.
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O yea true I got lost. Weird since I'm magnetorientatological.
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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.
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Interesting I never thought about why there are two terms for it.
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