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Great, then what do we use for "It's too sunny"?
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Oh Dear. I don't understand half of what people type using the English Alphabet, but now I have to learn a whole new language of weird yellow dots? And when did the pound sign (#) become a "hash tag"? How am I supposed to just know what all these new TLA's (Three Letter Acronyms) mean? I thought BAT stood for Basically Another Tuba.

Oh, and when someone posts they are giving a recital or clinic at PU next week, how am I supposed to know which PU and where in the world it is? I mean PU may mean only one place in your little world but to the rest of us, PU might mean some other place on the globe. For those who don't know, an old fashioned globe is a solid 3 dimensional representation of Google Maps.

This is why we old guys get grumpy. We worked for decades at the game of life and now when it should be easier because of all that we have learned, the rules get changed and what we've learned gets classified as obsolete.
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Those little yellow dots are actually closer to hieroglyphics than current proper English. So, technically, they are really old school. (What went around goes around again, don't throw out that old tie). It only took Egyptologists about 150 years to figure out, and then read, hieroglyphics. Finding the rosetta stone was a big help. Maybe we need a rosetta stone to translate the emogies or we can just guess.
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bort wrote:Great, then what do we use for "It's too sunny"?
Where I live we don't need an "It's too sunny?"
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In California there are over 1,000 words or expressions for "it's too sunny!!"

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Hencethird, hencefifth, hencesixth...use a cold, freezing, birth of the.....,lake effect- smiley...hmmm, must be Southern Slang.......Facebook tuba forums have normal talk....hmmmm... :D
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Hieroglyphics - A-sh (according to Nat Geo)
A an Egyptian vulture
B a foot
C a basket with handle
D a hand
E a reed
F a horned viper (an Egyptian snake)
G a jar-stand
H a reed shelter
I a reed
J a cobra
K the basket with the handle again (because hard “C” is like “K”)
L a lion
M an owl
N a zigzag symbol for water
O a lasso
P a square stool
Q a symbol for the slope of a hill
R a mouth
S a piece of linen folded over
T a bun
U a quail chick (which stands for the sound “U”)
V a horned viper
W a quail chick
X a basket and folded linen
Y two reeds
Z a door bolt
CH a hobble
KH a ball of string
SH the rectangle (which is the symbol for land)
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Matt Walters wrote:Oh, and when someone posts they are giving a recital or clinic at PU next week, how am I supposed to know which PU and where in the world it is?

It's just before FU and right after Pi.
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bun lasso lasso owl quail chick basket with handle reed shelter quail chick zizzag symbol for water mouth basket with handle again!
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Anybody that plays tuba knows that hencefifth is usable in more situations than hencefourth ... :tuba:
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When (and How) did the sharp sign # become a "pound" sign?
I thought a pound sign was the british version of a dollar sign ($), sort of a script capital "L" with a slash through it.
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#= An ligatured abbreviation for pounds avoirdupois (having been derived from the now-rare ℔).
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Good point - how many # avoirdupois in a £ sterling?

I believe to find the root of the "hash" denotation, you'd go back through computer programming, some decades ago, and maybe from there to some other engineering type discipline. By the time i was occupied with such things, I guess we'd sort passed by the more colorful "bang", "splat" terminology and they were "exclamation point", "star" or "asterisk" ... and I believe "pound sign". I understand the English were calling it "octothorpe".
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Recent origin theory:
The pound sign got confused with the hash mark because of a mismatch between the national variant of International Alphabet number 2 used on British Teleprinters, and the US Teletype Alphabet used on American Tele
types: pressing the hash key on a Teletype would transmit a code that would be rendered by a Teleprinter as a pound (currency) sign. This mismatch does exist, but I believe the hash mark was used as an abbreviation for "pounds weight" long before these machines were invented.

Ancient origin theory (more likely):
At one time it was usual to write abbreviations with a ligand (a horizontal stroke across the letters). The Latin abbreviation lb (for libra pondo, or "scale weight"), when written with a ligand, soon degenerated into an illegible scribble, from which it re-emerged as the hash mark.
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windshieldbug wrote:Anybody that plays tuba knows that hencefifth is usable in more situations than hencefourth ... :tuba:
Unless it's a dependent hencefifth.
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