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And then ampersands, while we are at it?

• hug 9y ago
  Maybe a silly question, but what is the issue with the ampersand?
  • carey 9y ago
    It’s just an unnecessary, extravagant ligature of the letters "et", from 9th century Latin.
    • deleted 9y ago
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    • IshKebab 9y ago
      So? Most symbols are 'unnecessary'. I'm pretty sure we could get away without ^ | # @ ` { } [ and ] for example. Hell Ancient Greek didn't even have spaces.
  • MartinCron 9y ago
    Inconsistent and problematic encoding and decoding of & in HTML, mostly.