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It’s used in English, which as far as I’m aware isn’t dead.
by bradrn 4y ago
It’s used in English, which as far as I’m aware isn’t dead.
- avgcorrection 4y agoIs that right.
- Waterluvian 4y agoOpportunistically and not out of necessity, I think. As far as I know all it means is “and.” If any word deserves a character, it’s “the.”
- ironick09 4y agoIt’s used as a symbol in programming, I have a hard time imagining a symbol that could replace “the”. That’s not to say there isn’t one that would be suitable, I just lack the creativity or imagination to think of one.
- Waterluvian 4y agoThe use in programming is also just a result of it being available. It’s a great fit for binary AND, logical AND, but there’s countless symbols that we just assign to operators because they’re available.
- pacaro 4y agoProlog uses /\ and \/ for bitwise AND and OR respectively, which certainly tips a hat to one system of logic notation—of course for conjunction and disjunction between clauses it uses , (comma) and ; (semi-colon)
- wolfgang42 4y agoPerhaps, taking inspiration from Tironian shorthand, “𝈭” (a backwards version of ⁊ “et”, so to speak) would be suitable?
- colanderman 4y agoI believe "yͤ" is the character you desire. [1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_articles#Ye_form https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_articles#Ye_form
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- wiml 4y agoI prefer the form with the þorn, but it's harder to enter on a phone keyboard. (In fact I don't know if there's any way at all to input that combining superscript "e" on my phone.) There are a bunch of old handwritten abbreviations that have fallen out of use probably due to typewriter/computer limitations.
- Symbiote 4y agoÞ is a long press on T, and Ð a long press on D, on my phone. But ðis might be because I have Danish as well as English installed, at at least Ð is required for Faroese names.
- oneeyedpigeon 4y agoYes, but there are nuances, as mentioned in the article: > In screenplays, two authors joined with & collaborated on the script, while two authors joined with and worked on the script at different times and may not have consulted each other at all. I sometimes use it to avoid awkwardness in lists, e.g. "I ate fish & chips and drank a cup of tea". I guess both examples use & as a stronger binder than and.
- nvader 4y agoboots & cats and boots & cats
- wl 4y agoIt's also occasionally used in English texts as a ligature for "et" in the Latin abbreviation of etcetera: &c.