I’m new to Lemmy and have been searching the federated communities for those which I wanted to subscribe to. For some reason, this community’s name renders weird on my instances search as well as the app I’m using (see image).

Is “Fantasy books, stories, &c” correct? And if so, what does “&c” stand for?

  • @[email protected]
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    72 years ago

    And cetera

    It’s a weird way of saying etc, which is an abbreviation of et cetera. Which is Latin for “and the rest”, with et being “and”. It’s more colloquially translated as “and so forth”, or “and so on”, or “yada yada yada”

      • @DocWurzel
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        32 years ago

        Yep, time really is at a premium when you need to abbreviate the abbreviations!

    • noöneOP
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      2 years ago

      an abbreviation of et cetera

      This has me smiling ear to ear. Could be that I’m just overtired. 🤪

      Night night interwebs &c.