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[nibot]

I strongly object to the use of the letter "R" to designate Thursday.

Comments

Þ

[nibot.livejournal.com]

yes!

Re: Þ

[eigenvalue.livejournal.com]

:-Þ

[remix79.livejournal.com]

Hear hear.

[bobolly.livejournal.com]

What's wrong with H? I thought that was the norm. R should be reserved for Pirate Day.

[chris-acheson.livejournal.com]

I agree. We should use H, and call it "Hursday".

[mr-um2312.livejournal.com]

I am confused - what day isn't pirate day?

[hello-mackenzie.livejournal.com]

word. I just go with 'Th'.

[nibot.livejournal.com]

Caltech does this in their course schedule. So does Univ of Rochester.

[chris-acheson.livejournal.com]

Same with RIT.

[sivart13.livejournal.com]

i like it.

[easwaran.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I hate the "U/R" convention. "U/H" is almost equally bad. I prefer "T/Th" or "Tu/Th", and I'm willing to accept T and either theta or thorn, though those feel too clever for their own good. I hadn't thought of thorn before, and it does have the advantage over theta of being more integral to the language somehow, even though theta is more familiar.

[nibot.livejournal.com]

Have you seen Θ used anywhere? It does seem "too clever".

[easwaran.livejournal.com]

I think I had a teacher in high school that used it. Though it was lower case rather than capital. I guess it really should be capital though, like the other day abbreviations, even though capital theta is slightly less familiar and easy to write than lower case.

[furzicle.livejournal.com]

Admission of dumbness: what is thorn?

PS I've always been perfectly happy with Tu/Th.
What, they can't afford the extra ink it takes to print one extra letter?

[tomtomtomtomtom.livejournal.com]

þ

[easwaran.livejournal.com]

It's the icelandic and old english letter for the sound at the beginning of "thorn", not to be confused with eth (I don't know how to display it, but it looks like a partial derivative with a slash through it) which is for the sound at the beginning of "the".

[furzicle.livejournal.com]

Now this I knew, though in the context of Icelandic. I'm not sure it is called thorn in that situation.

One is the airy th sound of 'thorn' or 'earth' or 'thick '
and the other is vocalized, as in 'the' or 'then.'

I'm sorry I don't remember the proper linguistic terms.

[librastorm.livejournal.com]

I totally agree. I never had a problem with T/Th and S/Su...

[cassiusdio.livejournal.com]

I actually like R better than θ, it's nice to have all the abbreviations from the same alphabet. Tu/Th is fine but if you want one-letter abbreviations I don't know why T/T isn't allowed if S/S is.