Doctor in #Yemen wrote in his car “ stop me if you need any medical consultation”

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Why does Yemen have a pound sign? They changed their name?

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u/prefer-to-stay-anon Aug 13 '21

The official name is actually "The Democratic Republic of #Yemen", but most people shorten it to just Yemen. I think OP was trying to be a bit more formal without using the whole title.

/s

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u/Successful_Glass_925 Aug 13 '21

Yemen’s official name has a pound sign or hash sign as some prefer?

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u/GenazaNL Aug 13 '21

Twitter?

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u/monstaber Aug 13 '21

Where do you see #? The car reads أوقفني ان كنت تريد استشارة طبية (stop me if you need medical advice)

edit: realized you mean the title

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u/cool_slowbro Aug 13 '21

It's how social media normies type.

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u/Haunting-Dress4972 Aug 14 '21

Good bot.

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u/hearnia_2k Aug 13 '21

That's a hash, not a pound....

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u/f_14 Aug 13 '21

Octothorp if you really want to be pedantic.

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u/omegabobo Aug 13 '21

This is reddit. Damn right we want to be pedantic!

I think you missed an e at the end of octothorpe :)

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u/Altkonto1066 Aug 13 '21

A general rule of thumb, check whether you might be wrong before correcting someone else. The symbol "#" can be referred to as "pound", "hash" or "number" sign. Source: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Number_sign

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u/IforgotwhatIwasdoing Aug 13 '21

When GenZ meets a Millennial. I still call it the pound sign no matter what the kids say.

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u/hearnia_2k Aug 13 '21

Calling it a pound sign is an American thing, according to the wiki someone else posted.

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u/One_Wheel_Drive Aug 13 '21

It is. In Britain, it's always been called hash. When you call and speak to a robot voice, they may ask you to press the hash key.

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u/Meritania Aug 13 '21

The pound sign in the UK is the £

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u/hearnia_2k Aug 13 '21

Also in Linux there is a slang term 'hashbang', which generally refers to the first line of a script.

I think hash is more common than pound outside the US, since otherwise it would just be confusing with the pound symbol.

Maybe I should start calling it dollar.

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u/IforgotwhatIwasdoing Aug 13 '21

Oh yeah. I imagine the British pound currency would make it very confusing to also call the # symbol the 'pound' symbol. It comes from the long ago time when people still had home phones and payphones could be found in the wild; aka the 90s and beyond. The # key was referred to as the 'pound key'.

E: Not sure why you were downvoted on this comment, you are correct.

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u/hearnia_2k Aug 14 '21

What has being a millenium got to do with it?

You probably say it because you're American; outside the US it's not a common term at all.