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The story behind stet…

Stet is an editor’s mark, taken from Latin that means “let it stand.” It is used to indicate that one should disregard a change that was marked and to leave the original as it was.

When I first thought of it as a tattoo, it was a joke, playing on the irony of essentially marking yourself with a “never mind, no change needed.” The more I thought about it, I realized it was actually deep. Leave me as I am. And given the layers of it all…ironic, funny, deep…I decided it was me.

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stet for more on stet.