[Dragaera] A typographical symbol

[Maximilian Wilson]

On 8/12/06, Davdi Silverrock <davdisil at gmail.com> wrote:
> Not really a spoiler, so no space.
>
> I found it interesting that both here, and in Steve's LJ comments,
> there were those who thought that "&c" was some sort of strange
> typographical error and were bothered by it enough to mention it, and
> those who immediately knew that it was just another way of writing
> "etc".  Of course, those who knew what it meant usually also knew the
> origin of the ampersand character.
>
> I'm not sure if I'm going anywhere with this.  I just think it's an
> interesting observation.

I dunno; I certainly didn't know the origin of the ampersand character
but I thought the meaning of &c was clear when I was exposed to it.
Maybe you're generalizing from one example?

-Maximilian

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