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

  • Square Singer@feddit.de
    5·
    1 year ago

    Oh, that totally works with a single language too: “Re: Re: Re:…” or “AW: AW: AW:…” seen both of that often enough.

    • user134450@feddit.deEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      yes indeed. i keep being confused how email can still suck so much sometimes when it had decades to mature.

      • Square Singer@feddit.de
        5·
        1 year ago

        Massive amounts of federation ;)

        It’s really hard to get thousands of software development companies, hundreds of thousands of hosters and billions of users to unitedly go for a new thing.