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

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I’m not an epidemiologists but I think they just took the o off of w/o

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It comes from the letter “w” as in, “with”

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I know this isn’t an answer on the topic of the history of abbreviations, but I found this page to have a useful list of abbreviations with the foreign speaker in mind.

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FIY For your information

i.g. For example

😆

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they forgot kys :(

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Kiss your stepsister?

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Kind young soul

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Kiss your sather

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keep yourself safe :)

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I use c̅ for with and s̅ for without, these may make more sense for you depending on your native tongue. They are medical shorthand.

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Oh, nice. Thanks for that input ^^

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Con and sans?

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I assume it is latin (which I don’t know) but essentially yes. I think of them as con and sin.

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Cum and sine in Latin, same meaning as con y sin

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In spanish we use the same abbreviation: c/ for “with” ans s/ for “without”

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Til :D

Thanks for that reply :D

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