Thank you for your answer mate :D
Comment on Where did the abbreviation "w/" for "with" come from?
HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 8 months ago
As others said, with as w/ was around as part of secretarial shorthand, which got taught to most people keeping corporate documentation and it stuck.
There are a lot of abbreviations like that in the English language that came from abbreviations in written form due to the media in was written in, whether it was newspapers, telegraph, handwritten shorthand, or computer based. It may not make sense because English isn’t a language designed to make sense; it isn’t even designed.
Zyratoxx@lemmy.world 8 months ago
yata@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
To be fair, no living language is.
OrteilGenou@lemmy.world 8 months ago
French is heavily managed by the Académie, I guess it depends how you interpret “designed”. English is a much freer language that morphs and absorbs terms from many languages.
GrayBackgroundMusic@lemm.ee 8 months ago
I wonder how much of the managed-language sticks vs the emergent-language. I recall years ago there was news of how the academie made up their own word for email.