Gently Teasing Your Filipina Wife Or Girlfriend How......

[stevewool]

£ that's a pound sign

[El Negrito]

I dislike it when "Y" uses 'gangsta' slang that she sees on Internet vines when she says she is 'teasing' me.  I find the language she uses disrespectful and insulting.  We have talked about it but she has a hard time differentiating between what she hears on the Internet that I would find acceptable and what I see as insulting.  This is going to take a long time and I told her that bringing her to meet my family when she talks like that is going to be a disaster.  Thus, be careful what you say when teasing your wife/gf as she will probably pick up on it and add the words to her vocabulary.

 

 

 

I dislike it when "Y" uses 'gangsta' slang that she sees on Internet vines when she says she is 'teasing' me.

 

I agree Dave ..... especially the term "dog" .... I told one idiot at work once that if he called me "dog" one more time I would kick his butt .... he thought he was cute and almost slipped one time but the look on his face as I started towards him was priceless ..... he didn't forget again ..... people are all the time trying to change the English Language take for example the # .... it has been called the pound sign for decades ever since the telephone .... math and the typewriter were invented but it is now know as a "hash tag" ..... why didn't they just make another symbol to represent a "hash tag" ..... they can't say pound sign .... nope it's got to be "hash tag" ..... oh well I don't use social media anyway so I just ignore "hash tag" .... oooops..... I mean pound sign .... :36_6_3[1]:  :hystery:  :hystery:

:cheersty:   

 

 

Whadda ya mean dog? Sorry I couldn't resist. While I have nothing against slang as a joke, there is a time and place for everything. I am glad that my dad made us speak proper English in everyday life, especially outside the home and in formal settings. I rarely use slang and when I do it is, again, in a joking way with close friends or family. As an English teacher I do teach it but only so the students know what it means, I also let them know when it might or might not be appropriate and most of the time I tell them not to use it.

 

 

it will always be the sharp symbol to me.

 

Interesting as it will always be the "number sign" to me.

 

 

For me it has always been the "number sign" first and then the pound key on the phone (don't recall it being the pound sign). I know now it's hashtag and I hate it and only use "hashtag" as a joke.

[i am bob]

Dave Hounddriver, on 16 Jan 2016 - 6:22 PM, said:   Tukaram (Tim), on 16 Jan 2016 - 4:17 PM, said: it will always be the sharp symbol to me.   Interesting as it will always be the "number sign" to me.     For me it has always been the "number sign" first and then the pound key on the phone (don't recall it being the pound sign). I know now it's hashtag and I hate it and only use "hashtag" as a joke.

 

My Gawd, people, don't you know a Cross Hatch when you see one?

 

:mocking:  :rolleyes:  :hystery:  :no:

[Jack Peterson]

 

Dave Hounddriver, on 16 Jan 2016 - 6:22 PM, said:   Tukaram (Tim), on 16 Jan 2016 - 4:17 PM, said: it will always be the sharp symbol to me.   Interesting as it will always be the "number sign" to me.     For me it has always been the "number sign" first and then the pound key on the phone (don't recall it being the pound sign). I know now it's hashtag and I hate it and only use "hashtag" as a joke.

 

My Gawd, people, don't you know a Cross Hatch when you see one?

 

:mocking:  :rolleyes:  :hystery:  :no:

 

 OK so we are some of us wrong and yet maybe, some are right,

 

Found this to clear things up I can Now understand the Pound bit ( not British money but weight) [seen it but never understood it before]  :)

http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2010/dec/08/hash-symbol-twitter-typography

Jack :thumbsup:

[Dave Hounddriver]

Found this to clear things up

 

That is an interesting link, but from a decidedly Brit perspective.  I mean how can they say its an "octothorpe", coined by engineers at Bell Laboratories in the early 1960s, when the thing has been used as a number sign since it first appeared on the keyboard of the Remington Standard typewriter (c. 1886) ???

 

It is interesting to not that it is not a sharp:

The symbol may be confused with the musical symbol called sharp (♯). In both symbols, there are two pairs of parallel lines. The main difference is that the number sign has two horizontal strokes while the sharp sign has two slanted parallel lines which must rise from left to right, in order to avoid being obscured by the horizontal musical staff lines

 

But it is a C Sharp:

 the name of the programming language C sharp is usually rendered with a hash symbol rather than the technically correct sharp sign.

 

 

For those who are not yet thoroughly confused, check out the Wiki page for the number sign or read this bit:

 

Other names in English[edit]

The symbol has many other names (and uses) in English:

 

Comment sign 

Taken from its use in many shell scripts and some programming languages (such as Python) to start comments.

Cross 

In China, non-native English speakers often refer to the number sign as "cross". It is said as jĭng in Chinese, as it looks like the Chinese character for water well ("井").

Hex 

Common usage in Singapore and Malaysia, as spoken by many recorded telephone directory-assistance menus: "Please enter your phone number followed by the hex key". The term "hex" is discouraged in Singapore in favour of "hash". In Singapore, a hash is also called "hex" in apartment addresses, where it precedes the floor number.[21][22]

Octothorp, octothorpe, octathorp, octatherp

Used by Bell Labs engineers by 1968.[23] Lauren Asplund says that he and a colleague were the source of octothorp at AT&T engineering in New York in 1964. The Merriam-Webster New Book of Word Histories, 1991, has a long article that is consistent with Doug Kerr's essay,[24] in that it says "octotherp" was the original spelling, and that the word arose in the 1960s among telephone engineers as a joke. The first appearance of "octothorp" in a US patent is in a 1973 filing. This patent also refers to the six-pointed asterisk (✻) used on telephone buttons as a "sextile".[25]

Sharp 

Resemblance to the glyph used in music notation, U+266F (♯). So called in the name of the Microsoft programming languages C#, J# and F#. However Microsoft says "It's not the 'hash' (or pound) symbol as most people believe. It's actually supposed to be the musical sharp symbol. However, because the sharp symbol is not present on the standard keyboard, it's easier to type the hash ('#') symbol. The name of the language is, of course, pronounced 'see sharp'."[26] According to the ECMA-334 C# Language Specification, section 6, Acronyms and abbreviations, the name of the language is written "C#" ("LATIN CAPITAL LETTER C (U+0043) followed by the NUMBER SIGN # (U+0023)") and pronounced "C Sharp".[27]

Space 

Used in proof-reading to denote that a space should be inserted. This can mean

a line space (the space between two adjacent lines denoted by line # in the margin),

a hair space (the space between two letters in a word, denoted by hr #)

a word space, or letter space (the space between two words on a line, two letter spaces being ##)

Em- and en-spaces (being the length of a letter m and n, respectively) are denoted by a square-shaped em- or en-quad character (⊞ and ⊟, respectively).[citation needed]

Square 

Occasionally used in the UK (e.g. sometimes in BT publications and automatic messages) – especially during the Prestel era, when the symbol was a page address delimiter. The International Telecommunications Union specification ITU-T E.161 3.2.2 states: "The # is to be known as a 'square' or the most commonly used equivalent term in other languages."

Others 

crosshatch, (garden) fence, mesh, flash, grid, pig-pen, tictactoe, scratch (mark), (garden) gate, hak, oof, rake, crunch, punch mark,[28] sink, corridor, capital 3, and waffle.

In mathematics[edit]

In set theory, #S is the cardinality of the set S. That is, for a set S = \{s_1,s_2,s_3, \dots , s_n\}, \#S = n.

In topology, where A and B are manifolds, A#B is the manifolds' connected sum. In knot theory (a branch of topology), where A and B are knots, A#B is the knots' knot sum.

In number theory, n# is the primorial of n.

In computing[edit]

In ARM assembly language it is used to denote an immediate value. This is one that can be evaluated during program compilation (usually a constant value).

In many scripting languages and data file formats, especially ones that originated on Unix, the # introduces a comment that goes to the end of the line. The combination #! at the start of an executable file is a "shebang" or "hash-bang", used to tell the operating system which program to use to run the script (see magic number). This combination was chosen so it would be a comment in the scripting languages.

#! is the symbol of the CrunchBang Linux distribution.

In the Perl programming language, # is used as a modifier to array syntax to return the index number of the last element in the array, e.g., @array's last element is at $array[$#array]. The number of elements in @array is $#array + 1, since Perl arrays default to using zero based indices. If the array has not been defined, the return is also undefined. If the array is defined but has not had any elements assigned to it, e.g., @array = (); then $#array returns −1. See the section on Array functions in the Perl language structure article.

In the C preprocessor (and the C++ preprocessor, and other syntactically C-like languages), # is used to start a preprocessor directive. Inside macros (after #define) it is used for various purposes, including the double pound sign ## used for token concatenation.

In Unix shells, # is placed by convention at the end of a command prompt to denote that the user is working as root.

# is used in a URL of a webpage or other resource to introduce a "fragment identifier" – an id which defines a position within that resource. For example, in the URL http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Number_sign#In_computingthe portion after the # (In_computing) is the fragment identifier, in this case denoting that the display should be moved to show the tag marked by <span id="In_computing">...</span> in the HTML.[29]

Internet Relay Chat: on (IRC) servers, # precedes the name of every channel that is available across an entire IRC network.

In blogs, # is sometimes used to denote a permalink for that particular weblog entry.

On social networking sites such as Twitter, # is used to denote a metadata tag, or hashtag. This influence has also spread into television, such as the hashtag heel wrestler in WWE.

In lightweight markup languages, such as wikitext, # is often used to introduce numbered list items.

In OCaml, # is the operator used to call a method.

In Common Lisp,[30] # is a dispatching read macro character used to extend the S-expression syntax with short cuts and support for various data types (complex numbers, vectors and more).

In Scheme, # is the prefix for certain syntax with special meaning.

In Standard ML, #, when prefixed to a field name, becomes a projection function (function to access the field of a record or tuple); also, # prefixes a string literal to turn it into a character literal.

In Mathematica syntax, #, when used as a variable, becomes a pure function (a placeholder that is mapped to any variable meeting the conditions).

In LaTeX, #, when prefixing a number, references an arguments for a user defined command. For instance \newcommand{\code}[1]{\texttt{#1}}.

In Javadoc,[31] # is used with the @see tag to introduce or separate a field, constructor, or method member from its containing class.

In some dialects of assembly language, # is used to denote immediate mode addressing, e.g., LDA #10, which means "load the accumulator with the value 10" in MOS 6502 assembly language.

in HTML, CSS, SVG, and other computing applications "#" is used to identify a color specified in hexadecimal format, e.g., #FFAA00. This usage comes from X11 color specifications, which inherited it from some obscure languages that used "#" to prefix hexadecimal constants.

In Be-Music Script, every command line starts with #. Lines starting with characters other than # are treated as comments.

Other uses[edit]

The use of the # symbol in a hashtag is a phenomenon conceived by Chris Messina, and popularized by social media network Twitter, as a way to direct conversations and topics amongst users. This has led to an increasingly common tendency to refer to the symbol itself as "hashtag", but this is technically incorrect.

Press releases: the notation "###" denotes "end", i.e. that there is no further copy to come.[32]

Chess notation: # after a move denotes checkmate, being easier to type than the traditional ‡.

Scrabble: Putting a number sign after a word indicates that the word is found in the British word lists, but not the North American lists.[33]

Prescription drug delimiter: in some countries, such as Norway or Poland, # is used as a delimiter between different drugs on medical prescriptions.

Copy writing and editing: technical writers often use three hash signs ("###") as a marker in text where more content will be added or there are errors to be corrected.

Mining: in underground mining, the hash sign is sometimes used as a shorthand for "seam" or "shaft". An example would be "4#", which would mean "four shaft" or "four seam" depending on the context.[citation needed]

Medical shorthand: # is often used to indicate a bone fracture.[34] For example, '#NOF' is often used for 'fractured neck of femur'.

In linguistic phonology, # denotes a word boundary. For instance, /d/ → [t] / _# means that /d/ becomes [t] when it is the last segment in a word (i.e. when it appears before a word boundary).

In linguistic syntax, # before an example sentence denotes that the sentence is semantically ill-formed, though grammatically well-formed. For instance, "#The toothbrush is pregnant" is a grammatical sentence, but the meaning is odd.[35]

In Teletext and DVB subtitles in the UK, the # symbol is used to mark text that is either sung by a character or heard in background music. e.g. # For he's a jolly good fellow #

American sign language transcription into English uses the # prefixing an all-caps word to identify a lexicalized fingerspelled sign, having some sort of blends or letter drops. All-caps words without the prefix are used for standard English words that are fingerspelled in their entirety.[36]

Unicode[edit]

In Unicode, several # characters are assigned:

 

U+0023 # number sign (HTML #) Other attested names in Unicode are: pound sign, hash, crosshatch, octothorpe.

U+FF03 fullwidth number sign (HTML ＃)

U+FE5F small number sign (HTML ﹟)

U+E0023 tag number sign (HTML ?)

In other languages or scripts:

 

U+0600 ؀ arabic number sign (HTML ؀)

U+0BFA ௺ tamil number sign (HTML ௺)

U+110BD kaithi number sign (HTML ?)

Related characters, the sharp sign in musical notation:

 

U+266F ♯ music sharp sign (HTML ♯)

U+1D12A musical symbol double sharp (HTML ?)

U+1D130 musical symbol sharp up (HTML ?)

U+1D131 musical symbol sharp down (HTML ?)

U+1D132 musical symbol quarter tone sharp (HTML ?)

In mathematics, the equal and parallel to sign:

 

U+22D5 ⋕ equal and parallel to (HTML ⋕)

[Jack Peterson]

That is an interesting link, but from a decidedly Brit perspective.

 

:hystery:  Of Course, I am British 

 

Just saying. :)

 

Jack :thumbsup: