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by kruffalon 87 days ago
Such elegance, or snobbery or at least some kind of beauty...

Using "&" literally in 2026 smells of wonder, well done, thanks!

Do you do it sometimes in regular English words too or just in &c? Please give more examples (if you have any).

This will be a great day, starting of like this: a written play with words; i like it!
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coolcoder613 86 days ago
&c as an abbreviation for etc was very common historically. For example, look at the OP. It would not normally be used for an et that is not the latin et (and), as in et cetera. Its use for an 'and' in latin carried over to english, for some reason, and that usage has stayed with us.
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Isamu 86 days ago
It’s hard to see but & is literally an e and a t conjoined. Not a ligature exactly
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coolcoder613 85 days ago
It is easier to see in other fonts, but yes, I am aware of that. However as far as I am aware, it was never used to join an e and t that were not the latin et.
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FrustratedMonky 87 days ago
I'm intrigued.

Is there something wrong with "&" in 2026?

Some kind of meta meaning?

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kruffalon 87 days ago
Nothing wrong at all, quite the opposite.

I like it a lot, and it makes me happy to see someone using the ligature of "e t"[0] ("&") not only as "and" but also as it's original "et" in the abbreviation "etc".

To me it reads like someone playing with words in a fun way, which is not that common in my parts of the internet

I was trying to express appreciation.

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[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ligature_(writing)

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