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Replacing the much lamented 'On My Mind' profile option, this thread is for musings, jottings, whimsies, preoccupations and the rest of the thesaurus for anyone to jot down anything they please.


I can't remember what the maximum character count was before, can anyone else? But anyway it wasn't very many so let's keep to that.

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Psue - you got it It's a blip in the system.
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Peasuep, 😂 gotcha
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Yep, & followed (with no space) with ‘amp’ loses its amp. Learn something new every day.
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I think I keep seeing & because, in HTML, the ampersand symbol may introduce special characters. So an actual ampersand becomes &. I am a tech troglodyte but I overhear a lot around here.

EDIT: Above, in my comment, I actually typed & with amp (no spaces) and it dropped the amp. So let’s see if my lone ampersand symbol gets ‘amp’ after it. Funky!

2nd EDIT: Nope, just getting &.
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Nacy, see Send’s last email, halfway down where it says AMP for email, etc.
It isn’t intended to show up but sometimes it does which I assume is a coding issue. (Does that sound like I actually know what I’m talking about? - I don’t, I read it on a geek chat!)
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So in a sentence that says & , it means, " and amplified" ?
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In texting and online communication, "amp" is an abbreviation for "amplified" and is used to emphasize or intensify the meaning of the preceding word or phrase. For example, "Players either get amped by the electricity of the event". 

"Amp" can also refer to:
Ampere: A unit of electric current that measures the amount of electrons flowing through a conductor per second 

Amplifier: A device that increases the amplitude of a signal 

Accelerated Mobile Pages: A mobile-friendly website page format that speeds up page display on mobile devices 

AMP for email: A feature that transforms traditional emails into interactive platforms

LOL Alva, You need to enter search for "What does amp mean in Filipino".

Traveling further down the rabbit-hole, we have this explained in the Urban Dictionary:
AMP
Urban Dictionary
https://www.urbandictionary.com › define › term=AMP
Noun: Acronym for the three things every woman should look for in a man. Ambition, Money, and Power.



 
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OK, guys. We got the & down for sure. I did know that one. But what is amp. Is that meaning that & is the ampersand? In total. I guess I can get that. But why not just &.
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There are movies,
some of us have seen.

Marley & Me 2008
The Prince & Me 2004
Roger & Me
You & Me 2018

All of these movie titles (and more) use the ampersand (&) instead of
the actual word "AND".

It would be unconsciously understood.
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Sends can you put & in a sentence that makes sense for us
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AMPERSAND (&)

The ampersand, also known as the "and sign", is the logogram &, representing the conjunction "and". It originated as a ligature of the letters of the word et (Latin for "and").[1]

Why is it called ampersand?
Ampersand, term used to refer to the symbol &, which stems from the ligature of the Latin word et, meaning “and.” The term ampersand is derived from “and per se and.” The symbol has also been used as part of &c in lieu of etc. (et cetera).Oct 28, 2024

You & Me against the world.

et al = and all of us against the world.

I so very much agree with Cwillie, and she is not such an old lady!
When she wrote:
"if you want to be understood then write properly".
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I looked it up. It’s a symbol conversion issue between the sending system and the receiving system. Which is a better way of saying it than I said before but why it happens and why someone hasn’t fixed it is a mystery.
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Oh, I get it. I believe “amp” appears when a symbol is used and the system does not recognize it in that setting. I have seen it in place of quotation marks or commas too. The person on the sending end does not see it, only the person on the receiving end.
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Sorry--it is this that confused me:
it says "&".
I got the "&" meaning and. But the "amp"? What the heck are they talking? And it is very very common on AC right now. Which kind of makes me question what's up.
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Oh peasuep, that actually could be what's happening
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Is it possible that some autocorrect systems are changing the typed symbol into a word without removing the symbol? Seems weird as, to me, typing ‘and’ is easier than typing ‘&’.
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I have no clue. IMO if you want to be understood then write properly, it's not like the days when we had to use shortcuts because we were typing on our flip phones using the number keys
(old woman shaking her fist at the sky) lol
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Honestly Alva, I'm confused too . I thought that the & ment and . Like say me & Tom are going... But now people are putting &and, I'm very confused 🤔
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Not sure if this is simply ON MY MIND or if it is a WHINE for today, but I don't know what the words/acronym "&" means. I haven't a CLUE?
I am seeing this all the time in post questions now.
Who has the skivvy for me?
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Cwillie 😳😲 are you going to be stuck inside for a long time?

It sounds like time to curl up in your favorite spot and watch Hallmark with a bowl of popcorn.

I hope you are well supplied

I heard out towards Buffalo it's going to snow till tomorrow
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76 cm now....
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Ana, I will be about 20 minutes from Cleveland, so this is something I want to check out. Maybe on my second trip during Spring Break 🙂
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DoggieMom: If you’re in Cleveland and are into rock music, the Rock ‘n Roll Hall of Fame and Museum is very cool. (I was there late 1990s - fun road trip with my best friend)
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Peasuep, not unusual for us to have, an average of 2 feet on the ground though the winter. Now it's so hard to say. Not sure what true or not because I stopped believing in news ( 😆) but I read my area is one of the top 5 places, where the weather has change in the US, the most. Winters have most definitely been weird here

Cwillie, I think that is about 2 feet?
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62 cm on my deck and more falling.... not quite as much on the car as I cleaned it off yesterday. Thankfully I have a kind neighbour with a snowblower.
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Ana, nice to have an excuse not to send cards. My family has taken to texting personalized gifs for holidays and birthdays. I used to think it was terrible but now I like it. I honestly don’t care if I never talk on a telephone again.

Nacy, how much snow you usually get up (and over) there? And when it falls, does it stick around for weeks and cause havoc? I don’t miss the snow at our old place except seeing the morning sun on it before anyone had driven down the hill. And I loved studying individual snowflakes on the windows; such magical things. That doesn’t happen here.

Doggiemom, I can count on 1 hand the number of times a vacation has been absolutely perfect and my heart was in a place to receive it as such. Your Thanksgiving sounds like one of those times. I hope the Ohio trip is the same.
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Ho ❄️ Ho ❄️ NO❄️❄️❄️❄️❄️☃️ 😖
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On my mind : I'm very happy the snow in NY is west of me. 😎

Doggiemom, that sounds like a very nice Thanksgiving. Glad the pups did well! Boyfriend 💓 💓 I'm so happy for you.

Anna, a post office strike? That must be making annoying?
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I went to Arkansas with my Mom, brother, and sister-in-law to visit with my aunt and uncle. We stayed at an air b and B. It was very nice, multi-story updated log cabin. I was nervous because I boarded my dog with a sitter but they did great (Sky is still as calm as I've ever seen her!). We had a great dinner which I helped make. The house was in the woods on a lake even had a sauna!

I'm going to Ohio at the end of December to visit with my boyfriend. I have never been to Ohio so should be interesting.
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Canada Post is on strike. I’m off the hook for sending Christmas cards. I send about 10 to faraway friends and family. Uh-oh, what if people phone me instead! Gulp!
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