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femmenietzsche:

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kontextmaschine:

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WAIT, was Etsy named after \u201c&c\u201d, like \u201cet c.\u201d, abbreviation for et cetera, meaning \u201cmiscellaneous\u201d and invoking the flea/craft market aesthetic?

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MOTHER FUCKER

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Actually:

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\nKalin said that he \nnamed the site Etsy because he \u201cwanted a nonsense word because I wanted \nto build the brand from scratch. I was watching Fellini\u2019s 8 \u00bd and \nwriting down what I was hearing. In Italian, you say \u2018etsi\u2019 a lot. It \nmeans \u2018oh, yes\u2019 (actually it\u2019s “eh, si\u201d). And in Latin and French, it \nmeans ‘what if.\u2019\u201c\n\n

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