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minus-squarehddsx@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up34·2 days agoMonday or Friday? Who interprets a slash as “through”? Does M/W/F mean Monday through Wednesday through Friday then?
minus-squareCrashumbc@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·4 hours agoIt all depends on what the person modifying the sign had available. Having been that person, you work with what you got…
minus-squareFiskFisk33@startrek.websitelinkfedilinkarrow-up5·1 day agoI agree, to me it reads “monday and/or friday”
minus-squareDagwoodIII@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5arrow-down3·2 days agoMeh. Context tells you when a “.” means ‘end of sentence’ and ‘decimal point.’
minus-squarehddsx@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up29·2 days agoContext holds that you use a dash to mean “through” and a slash to mean “or” here.
minus-squaresem@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down1·1 day agob/w can mean black and white or between depending on context.
minus-squarehddsx@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up2·edit-213 hours agoYeah well the other meaning I can see is motherfucker. Also, I hate b/w for between. It doesn’t make sense. It’s not bet ween. It’s be tween.
minus-squaresem@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up1·13 hours agoIt’s a semi arbitrary symbol for speeding up handwriting. It’s just supposed to be recognizable, connecting the two most important letters. Which it does well.
minus-squarehddsx@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up1·12 hours agoWhy is the w more important than the t, with the T representing the second syllable
minus-squaresem@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up1·6 hours agoIt just makes more sense to me. The w sound is longer and more important imo but I wouldn’t be mad if you did shorthand a different way.
Monday or Friday?
Who interprets a slash as “through”? Does M/W/F mean Monday through Wednesday through Friday then?
It all depends on what the person modifying the sign had available. Having been that person, you work with what you got…
I agree, to me it reads “monday and/or friday”
Meh.
Context tells you when a “.” means ‘end of sentence’ and ‘decimal point.’
Context holds that you use a dash to mean “through” and a slash to mean “or” here.
b/w can mean black and white or between depending on context.
Yeah well the other meaning I can see is motherfucker.
Also, I hate b/w for between. It doesn’t make sense. It’s not bet ween. It’s be tween.
It’s a semi arbitrary symbol for speeding up handwriting. It’s just supposed to be recognizable, connecting the two most important letters. Which it does well.
Why is the w more important than the t, with the T representing the second syllable
It just makes more sense to me. The w sound is longer and more important imo but I wouldn’t be mad if you did shorthand a different way.