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Has goto fail been fixed yet?
... am I the only one that thinks "pound" would be a better phrase than "hashtag" when saying these out loud ?
Cuts syllable usage in half ... has worked for decades with irc channel names ...
CUViper
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'#' is commonly called either "hash" or "pound", and "tag" as a suffix just describes this tagging use in context. For an apples-to-apples comparison you'd be saying "poundtag", but good luck getting that to catch on. :)
acuozzo
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Octothorpe FTW
peteri
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Hmm over here on this side of the pond a pound symbol means £ not octothorpe / hash / sharp.
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Cuts syllable usage in half ... has worked for decades with irc channel names ...