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 instance's 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?
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"
This has me smiling ear to ear. Could be that I'm just overtired. 🤪
Night night interwebs &c.
Etc is too long nowadays? Good god.
More archaic than weird, I'd say. The reason & means 'and' is that it's a stylized ligature of et.
Well, archaic does kind of fill the bill being a fantasy community and all. 😁