Major let down :C

llazzarr wrote:


As for the #(number) sign. Everybody in the States (who has a brain) knows and remembers it as a "pound sign" on their phone. Only recently has it been known simply as a "hashtag" by teenagers who don't understand there is a whole world outside of the bubble they live in. As for Canadians/those overseas, I have no idea what they referred to it as.

Its not known as a hashtag anywhere, at least not correctly. Its a hash, the word after it (in a tweet) and the hash sign together form the hashtag. Its a tag with a hash in it, hence hash tag.

We know everybody in the states calls it a pound sign, that was established early on. But when the man who first decided to assemble a typewriter keyboard put the # on your US keyboard, he didnt randomly put it there because he didnt want to put a £ on it. Maybe he was seriously anti-british but I doubt it. It obviously had a totally different use and wasnt called the pound sign at that point, because before keyboards people didnt need to substitute a pound sign with a different sign, they had tge ability to write a pound sign. So it was called something else and used for something else. Anyhow this has gone on far too long and has definitely prooved that some people just dont get some types of humour.