[Dragaera] A typographical symbol

Louis Eastman almagaiz at gmail.com
Sun Aug 13 18:35:15 PDT 2006


High school Latin allowed me to realize that; although the 2 years of it
were worth it for that moment.

On 8/13/06, Davdi Silverrock <davdisil at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 8/13/06, Maximilian Wilson <wilson.max at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >
> > 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?
> >
>
> Actually, I'm generalizing from 3 examples (myself, Jon, and an LJ
> commenter who is not majikjon), which is almost infinitely better
> (once is happenstance; twice is coincidence; three times is enem-- a
> certainty).
>
> Just out of curiosity: Even if you didn't know the origin of "&", did
> you have an awareness that the "et" in "etc" means "and"?
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