today we learned that they use a different symbol in Greek instead of an ampersand: ϗ, which is a ligature of the Greek word και, meaning and
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@Felthry Oh that's /neat!/
@Felthry ?!
@IceWolf You didn't know that? @ is also a ligature of the word ad!
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@Felthry Did not know either of those, that's pretty cool!
@Felthry oooh, that's pretty...
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Terrible joke
@packbat Hmm. Bag emoji. Is that a... packpack?
re: Terrible joke
@terrana yesss 💚
but actually no, it's just "I know I'm one of these Packbats but I'm having trouble with introspection so I can't tell which one"
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@Felthry Do you know the origin of the ampersand itself?
@terrana As a ligature of the word et, yes?
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@Felthry Indeed. And the name has an interesting derivation as well. It used to live at the end of the alphabet, and when reciting the whole alphabet, you'd end with, "y, z, and, per se, and." Ampersand is just a contraction of that ending phrase with the n morphed into an m.
The ampersand & is itself a ligature of the Latin word et, which also means and.
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