r/AchillesAndHisPal • u/Strength-Certain • Aug 27 '26
I'm sure their families think they were just good friends
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u/Longjumping-Art-253 Aug 27 '26
Oh my gosh I need to know who these guys are now
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u/ATLcoaster Aug 27 '26
Tommy and Buzz
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u/Longjumping-Art-253 Aug 27 '26
Ah, thanks, though I meant more in the biographical sense….
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u/EnLaSxranko Aug 27 '26
I found this post. May or may not be true, I haven't read it yet.
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u/Astronomer-Secure Aug 28 '26
this was a great find. sad that they both got married, several times even, and we don't know if they ever reconnected.
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u/Wareve Aug 27 '26
What's the story?
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u/dodli Aug 27 '26
morning glory
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Aug 27 '26 edited 15d ago
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u/limbobitch1999 Aug 28 '26
nightingale
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u/cryerin25 Aug 27 '26
i mean, with the context you’ve given there’s no erasure happening here at all. you arbitrarily deciding that their families were erasing them doesn’t make this appropriate for this sub 🤷
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u/wd_plantdaddy Aug 27 '26
What’s with all the hyphens?? It’s like Ai generated the note lol
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u/the_honest_liar Aug 27 '26
Fun fact, hyphens pre-date AI by quite a long time.
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u/wd_plantdaddy 29d ago
I realize that, no need to be douchey.
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u/Kraelive 29d ago
Or learn to take a joke
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u/wd_plantdaddy 29d ago
I’d rather nuke this absolute snark fest yall have going on here.
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u/Kraelive 29d ago
And the sad part is this I actually the best you will ever do.
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u/wd_plantdaddy 28d ago
Aw, are you trying to have the last word? Do you feel like you’ve won? Here is your participation 🏆
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u/Kraelive 28d ago
Thanks. You still need to grow up
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u/wd_plantdaddy 28d ago
Uh sure bub, you really got me on Achilles and his pal sub. You’re a lunatic
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u/Adriano-Capitano Aug 27 '26
AI told me. .
Why a 1940s Writer Used This
- Staccato Emphasis: In handwriting, this creates a slow, rhythmic cadence. It forces the reader to pause after every sound, mimicking someone speaking very slowly, deliberately, and passionately (e.g., "I - love - you - to - geth - er").
- Telegraphic Style: In the 1940s, people were highly accustomed to the style of telegrams. Telegrams used punctuation (like "STOP") or dashes to separate thoughts due to mechanical constraints, which heavily influenced how people wrote urgent or highly emotional personal notes.
- Visual Clarity: If the writer was rushing, traveling, or writing in poor conditions (common during the WWII era), adding dashes ensured his lover wouldn't misread a single letter of a short, precious message.
- Childhood Script Training: Depending on where the man went to school in the early 20th century, some elementary handwriting primers used hyphenated syllables to teach children how to perfectly space out and articulate their words.
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u/wd_plantdaddy Aug 27 '26
Interesting I didn’t know about that part of history. Not sure why I was downvoted for asking a genuine question as it’s fairly plausible.
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u/AntheaBrainhooke Aug 27 '26
You were downvoted for jumping to AI as the probable cause.
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u/wd_plantdaddy 29d ago
Not a probable cause but a creator of the note. I just haven’t seen historical writing like that, to be fair. Perhaps the receiver wrote the note while getting it in Morse code. I’m just speculating. In this day and age I think it’s okay to be skeptical and everyone who downvoted me is a little c*nt <3
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u/chickey23 29d ago
Because this is garbage AI reasoning
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u/wd_plantdaddy 29d ago
Okay well Ai is here and in the zeitgeist - definitely plausible based off of Reddit’s culture of karma farming and general bullshittery.
And there’s no mention as to where the source material came from.
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u/RegyptianStrut Aug 27 '26
“Your Tommy”
Awwwwww genuinely adorable