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A message so important nobody reads it, just forwards it with 'thoughts?'
means A short written note, typically circulated within an organization, that records or communicates information.
from Short for 'memorandum,' which is Latin for 'a thing to be remembered' — the gerundive of 'memorare,' to call to mind, kin to 'memory.' The clipped form 'memo' took hold in the early 20th century, as office life multiplied the things that, ironically, were meant to be remembered.
- latin root
- From 'memorandum,' meaning 'thing to be remembered'
- dead air
- Nixon's White House ran on paper memos obsessively
- didn't get it
- Phrase born from corporate memos people supposedly missed
- post-it origin
- Failed glue became the world's tiniest memo
for instance
enron internal memos — leaked corporate communications revealing accounting fraud that led to company collapse in 2001
watergate smoking gun memo — nixon's june 23, 1972 memo ordering cia obstruction of the fbi investigation