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PostPosted: Thu Feb 24, 2005 1:25 pm    Post subject: w and m Reply with quote

So if w is 'double-u', why isn't m 'double-n'? Just wondering what you people think happened while forming our written language.
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PostPosted: Thu Feb 24, 2005 1:51 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

w would be double-v if they wanted them to relate like that.
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PostPosted: Thu Feb 24, 2005 2:08 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Hmmm. Experimenting with the ol' magic mushrooms again are we? I did that kind of pondering back when I was in 'Nam in '71.


j/k!
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PostPosted: Thu Feb 24, 2005 5:45 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

And B should be double-P...
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PostPosted: Thu Feb 24, 2005 5:50 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Why are they called 'letters' to begin with?
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PostPosted: Thu Feb 24, 2005 6:03 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

They probably should have made a word that used all the letters to be fair...
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PostPosted: Thu Feb 24, 2005 6:29 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Dunno, but 1 thing i"m sure...!!!

I think that you think too much!!!
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PostPosted: Sat Apr 16, 2005 10:58 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Mulder wrote:
Why are they called 'letters' to begin with?


BECAUSE, they use to be called characters, but people used them to write letters, so it just became for convenient once cartoons were invented. that's totaly BS by btw.
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PostPosted: Sat Apr 16, 2005 12:27 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Mike wrote:
w would be double-v if they wanted them to relate like that.


In french it is double-v.
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PostPosted: Sat Apr 16, 2005 7:57 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

shockwave wrote:
Mike wrote:
w would be double-v if they wanted them to relate like that.


In french it is double-v.


And in french if you say "e"(in english) it's "i"(in french) in fact!
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PostPosted: Sun May 08, 2005 4:28 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

i believe in Spanish its "double-v" also.
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PostPosted: Sun May 08, 2005 8:13 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Because in cursive (what we used before print was invented), the w looked like 2 u's connected. The m however consisted of 4 humps and the n 3. To call it a double n would then imply that it contained 6 humps (which it did not).

I win (and stevo B wouldn't be double P... uu looks like a w, nn looks like an m, pp does not look like a b )
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PostPosted: Sun May 08, 2005 8:18 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

after reading all that I just got a headache
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PostPosted: Sun May 08, 2005 8:26 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

take excedrin migraine - headaches go bye bye real quick... good stuff
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PostPosted: Sun May 08, 2005 8:50 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

[HALO]Rebel_Rouser wrote:
after reading all that I just got a headache

When I have headache I put some music, maybe you should listen to some Duane Eddy!
Right? Rebel Rouser
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