Hi, English isn’t my mother tongue so I was asking myself that question since I first encounted a w/… Back then I was like: “What tf does ‘w slash’ stand for?” And when I found out I was like “How, why, and is it any intuitive?” But I never dared to ask that until now

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    1 year ago

    Just wait until you encounter morse code abbreviations, some of which are still used in some industries. Like the wonderful X abbreviations, such as:

    Wx - weather

    Mx - maintainence

    Tx/Rx - transmit/receive

    Edit: I’m starting to think every industry totally did their own thing with morse abbreviations