Hash tag is the correct name for that symbol though. We in the US call it the number sign but I believe the word hash is used globally. Might explain the difference. Also terabytes or TB/S could be interchanged with table spoons but terabytes is correct and probably selected since it’s used commonly in computing yet both are correct so the original poster raises a good point. There aught to be modes where acronyms are used say a technical mode that favors terabytes and a home mode or consumer mode that favors table spoons. Or if that doesn’t work some way to select the correct usage maybe based automatically on context.
> On Sep 21, 2015, at 12:23 PM, Jeffrey Shockley <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, > It looks like VoiceOver does the same thing with the number or hash > symbol,also known more commonly as the hashtag nowadays. I’ll explain the > best I can. > So, for example, if you type #email #computer or any word with the number > sign in front of it, VoiceOver reads that symbol as hashtag. This makes since > in things like Twitter, but it does it everywhere. LOL. There are other > things that use that symbol, and not just hashtags for social media. Crazy > stuff. :) > > Jeffrey >> On Sep 21, 2015, at 11:49 AM, Mary Otten <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Good old Alex has discovered a new cooking term. Did you know that when >> you're making short ribs in the slow cooker, you need to add one and a half >> terabytes of balsamic vinegar? When, when, will the folks who make the >> speech synthesizers stop trying to guess what abbreviations mean and leave >> it up to us, the human readers with the smarts, to figure it out for >> ourselves? >> Mary >> >> Sent from my iPhone >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
