 |
 | Home | Contact Us | FAQ | Search & Site Map | Link to Us |
 | Sign In | Join | Other 45 Sites in Network |
| HomeDiscussion GroupsEnglish UsageBritish EnglishESL Teaching Learnglish.com Contact UsLink To UsSearch & Site Map |
Discussion Groups / English Usage / January 2007&
Do I detect an increasing, and inappropriate, use of the ampersand in modern English? David. > Do I detect an increasing, and inappropriate, use of the ampersand in modern > English? > > David. & I would know that how? >> Do I detect an increasing, and inappropriate, use of the ampersand in >> modern [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > > & I would know that how? Let me put that another way. Do you detect an increasing, and inappropriate, use of the ampersand in modern English? >>> Do I detect an increasing, and inappropriate, use of the ampersand >>> in modern [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > Let me put that another way. Do you detect an increasing, and > inappropriate, use of the ampersand in modern English? In what sense inappropriate? HTH H&  SignatureJohn Dean Oxford Many sources state that use of the ampersand to stand for "and" is declining, as more people "write" with computers, rather than pen and paper. On 23 Jan 2007, wrote > Many sources state that use of the ampersand to stand for "and" > is declining, as more people "write" with computers, rather than > pen and paper. This certainly rings true for most of the 20th century -- you see it often in handwritten notes and letters from all centuries, but not in typewritten material. But perhaps texting is changing things back again, and it's being re- introduced? That might explain OP's sense of seeing it more frequently than he expects to see it. SignatureCheers, Harvey Canadian and British English, indiscriminately mixed For e-mail, change harvey.news to harvey.van > On 23 Jan 2007, wrote > [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > > -- I'm not sure that an & is even available for texting, is it? The standard texting 'and' is a simple n as used for some time in "fish'n'chips" & the like. & we still have no explanation of what an 'inappropriate' use of an ampersand might be. "Flying Tortoise" <purple.mug@googlemail.com> ???????:1169581048.399836.107700@a75g2000cwd.googlegroups.com... >> On 23 Jan 2007, wrote >> [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] > > I'm not sure that an & is even available for texting, is it? It is on my Motorola, but it takes 13 presses of the 1 key to get it. It's no time-saver. SignaturePosted via a free Usenet account from http://www.teranews.com <mike.j.harvey@gmail.com> ???????:1169562726.186295.308820@k78g2000cwa.googlegroups.com... > Many sources state that use of the ampersand to stand for "and" is > declining, as more people "write" with computers, rather than pen and > paper. I avoid ampersands in formal writing except when they appear in quoted material and proper nouns; I also use them in course titles to avoid a morass of ands: "I attended Probability & Statistics, Management & Marketing, and Language & Learning during my freshman year" is easier to read than "I attended Probability and Statistics, Management and Marketing, and Language and Learning during my freshman year." In non-formal writing, ampers&s can be h&y and d&y, spicing up otherwise bl& prose. SignaturePosted via a free Usenet account from http://www.teranews.com > In non-formal writing, ampers&s can be h&y and d&y, spicing up > otherwise bl& prose. H& SignatureJohn Dean Oxford |
Reply to this Message |
 Sign In
 Join
 My Latest Posts My Monitored Threads My Blog My Photo Gallery My Profile My Homepage Start New Thread Enable EMail Alerts Rate this Thread
|
©2012 Advenet LLC Privacy Policy - Terms of Use
This website includes both content owned or controlled by Advenet as well as content owned or controlled by third parties.