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Fantasy books, stories, &c

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I'm new to Lemmy and have been searching the federated communities for those which I wanted to subscribe to. For some reason, this community's name renders weird on my instances search as well as the app I'm using (see image).

Is "Fantasy books, stories, &c" correct? And if so, what does "&c" stand for?

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago (2 children)

And cetera

It's a weird way of saying etc, which is an abbreviation of et cetera. Which is Latin for "and the rest", with et being "and". It's more colloquially translated as "and so forth", or "and so on", or "yada yada yada"

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Etc is too long nowadays? Good god.

[–] DocWurzel 3 points 2 years ago

Yep, time really is at a premium when you need to abbreviate the abbreviations!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

an abbreviation of et cetera

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