Kai Großjohann writes:
> "Stefan Monnier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > If you take & as "and" and translate it into some kind of latin-
> > derived language like French, you get "et". Concatenation with
> > the remaining "c" should give a fair idea of what it means. I'm
> > not sure if this corresponds to actual language-evolution-
> > history, tho.
>
> I think that the `&' character is just a representation of a fancy
> drawing of `et'. Actually, I think it's more like `Et'. I'm not at
> all sure that this is easy to see for Yuji, though...
>
> For those who don'w know romance languages, `&c' is short for `etc'
> which is short for `et cetera' which is Latin and means `and others'.
Sorry to be pedantic but "et cetera" means "and the rest", abbreviated
as "etc" or "&c". "et alia" means "and others", abbreviated as "et
al".
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