Comment on Where did the abbreviation "w/" for "with" come from?
Taniwha420@lemmy.world 1 year ago… I think it’s actually a Latin word, “re,”, meaning, “the matter (subject)” not an abbreviation at all.
Comment on Where did the abbreviation "w/" for "with" come from?
Taniwha420@lemmy.world 1 year ago… I think it’s actually a Latin word, “re,”, meaning, “the matter (subject)” not an abbreviation at all.
user134450@feddit.de 1 year ago
yeah this is a real pet peeve of mine.
In German many people, web mailers and also sometimes even email software use “AW:” (short for AntWort) instead of “Re:” and then some of them don’t even recognize the existence of a previous “AW:” or “Re:” giving you such wondrous email subjects as: “AW: Re: AW: Re: AW: AW: Re: AW: Re: really important subject” 🤦
squaresinger@feddit.de 1 year ago
Oh, that totally works with a single language too: “Re: Re: Re:…” or “AW: AW: AW:…” seen both of that often enough.
user134450@feddit.de 1 year ago
yes indeed. i keep being confused how email can still suck so much sometimes when it had decades to mature.
squaresinger@feddit.de 1 year ago
Massive amounts of federation ;)
It’s really hard to get thousands of software development companies, hundreds of thousands of hosters and billions of users to unitedly go for a new thing.
railsdev@programming.dev 1 year ago
It would make much more sense these days to simply leave the subject line intact then have the mail client display the “reply” or “forwarded” lingo on its own.
It’s a computer so it should be smart enough to know what’s happening. I never understand when we make computers do stupid things instead of actually programming them to be smart. Otherwise what’s the point of using them?
GrayBackgroundMusic@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Ah, yes, you get forwards from my boomer-aged father, too!
Taniwha420@lemmy.world 1 year ago
The Foreword? Or is that answer? Forward in English would be the author’s message at the beginning of a book.