CHAT: Ampersands
| From: | Bryan Maloney <slimehoo@yahoo.com> <slimehoo@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, January 22, 2003, 3:45 |
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--- In conlang@yahoogroups.com, Arthaey Angosii <arthaey@H...> wrote:
> PS - ObLang: I also love the ampersand &, even since I learned that
it was
> evolved from the Latin |et| "and". Think of how many people (especially
> over the Internet or otherwise on the computer) use &. Latin's fingers
> really are in lots of pies!
It's even better than that. "&" was adopted in medieval scriptoria as
a convenient abbreviation. Thus, we not only continue Latin but we
also perpetuate the monastic literary copying tradition. Given how
many clerics did conlanging, it's deliciously appropirate.
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