mothom
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ok. i'm in total confusion anymore as to what this symbol # is supposed to mean. in my schoolboy days i was taught that it meant number, like in number one or number 3 and so on except it was written #1 or #3 and so on. later in life, when touch tone phones came along, it became the pound key. up until then i was under the impression pound was indicated by lb. which never made sense to me anyway as there is neither an l or a b in the word pound. but now it means hashtag, whatever that is. to me, it still means number. ya'll have a good day!
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4/6/2018, 4:25 pm
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Physical Culturist
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You know more about this than I do.
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4/8/2018, 1:19 am
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Google has the answer: Lb is an abbreviation of the Latin word libra. The primary meaning of libra was balance or scales (as in the astrological sign), but it also stood for the ancient Roman unit of measure libra pondo, meaning “a pound by weight.
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mothom
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thank you ian for looking that up.
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4/8/2018, 7:00 pm
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I think # means you can get online and post something stupid for the world to see. It is probably best that I remain ignorant of how it works. I can be pretty stupid. I think # was developed for Hollywood and professional athletes.
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4/13/2018, 12:42 pm
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and there we have it from a school teacher. so i guess it's official. but i will still use it as it relates to "number."
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I think we all will. It has been high-jacked as the "hashtag". Or on the phone it used to be "pound".
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4/16/2018, 12:18 pm
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