Talk:C

Added a bullet point to "meanings for c"

the element C = Carbon can take amazing forms like coal, diamaong, graphite, peat, and C60. People who have academic interest can read up articles on bucky ball Swati Mridu 17:35, 19 November 2006 (UTC)

Older comments

Look at what A and B now have pictures for; why doesn't C have any?? 66.32.138.124 02:46, 24 Apr 2004 (UTC)

I almost feel stupid adding this as late as three years later, but here it goes anyway. For a long time, C and G were the same letter. So you will find the history of this glyph under "G".

Strange phrase removed from the main article

In Chinese it is used to represent a vocal sound for foreigners not familiar with Ping Ing. — Monedula 08:45, 22 Apr 2005 (UTC)

• I think Ping Ing is supposed to be Pinyin, but all sounds in spoken human languages are by definition vocal so I don't know what this is trying to say. Perhaps "vocal" is supposed to mean "vowel" (cf Spanish la vocal = 'vowel'). But unfortunately I don't know too much about non-standard Chinese transliteration schemes to know for sure. — Ливай | ☺ 20:14, 22 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Swati Mridu 05:21, 20 November 2006 (UTC)

Plus sign

Why isn't a plus sign a legal character for a title?? 66.245.113.214 01:34, 8 November 2005 (UTC)

SC

I'm putting that in Old English sc=sh in Modern English.Cameron Nedland 00:10, 28 February 2006 (UTC)

Infinty and beyond!

C^∞ is almost illegible on my screen, can anyone improve it? Rich Farmbrough 08:24 16 June 2006 (GMT).

Another "C"

I'm reading Locke's second treatise, and I'm seeing characters I cannot name.

Every time an 's' or a 'c' is followed by a 't', I see this squiggle-thing connected to the s or the c.

What character is this, and where can I find a copy of it online? I'm planning to write an essay on Locke, and I'm very particular about getting every character correct in my quotations. Thanks in advance.

69.255.77.112 23:37, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

WTF just happened to this article?

Has someone linked it prominently from a help page as a joke or something? Posts from newbies asking how to do stuff keep showing up at the bottom – Gurch 13:39, 26 October 2007 (UTC)

Never mind, turned out to be a mind-boggling display of incompetence over at the Reference Desk – Gurch 14:00, 26 October 2007 (UTC)

C in Greek

I have been reading a lot of hand written Greek text that were written before the invention of minisule (small letters). In these Greek text, the letter Sigma is clearly written as a Capital C. When I cross reference the text that I am reading to a copy in minisule i see that indeed it is a Sigma and not a Gamma. I suppose the most famous example of these text is the Codex Vaticanus. Does anyone know if there is a history between this Greek C that stood for Sigma and the Latin C that jumps sounds from almost a Sigma to Sigma to Kappa? I would love if someone could find out and enhance this article. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 60.47.40.84 (talk) 08:06, 20 November 2007 (UTC)

disambiguation

C-sharp seems to summarize most of the redirect/disambiguations that are within this article. Anyone game to make changes? --CyclePat (talk) 16:09, 10 January 2008 (UTC)

excessive codes

computer codes are good but it annoys me how the same ascii codes are repeated 4 times, it should just say them one, and then link to the pages of the encodings so that people can figure it out themselves. As i understand people link to google and the copy and paste you could include a nice little chart of the common ways of writing the same ascii numbers.Scientus (talk) 00:47, 11 December 2008 (UTC) . —Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.13.166.63 (talk) 14:25, 23 December 2008 (UTC)

Y, too!

In English, French and Spanish, C takes the "hard" value [k] finally and before A, O, and U, and a "soft" value before E and I.

It is also soft before Y... this should be noted. And also hard before a consonant sound, like in "cranberry". 192.197.178.2 (talk) 13:47, 23 April 2009 (UTC)

I'll second that, and add another request -- remove (or explain) the "soccer" entry -- how does it not follow the rules it is supposed to be an exception to? One C is after an O, which supposed to make it hard (which it does), and the other C is after a consonant, which also makes it hard (which it does). Is this supposed to be an "exception" somehow to the rules in that it follows the as of yet unmentioned rule that C is hard after consonants? Christophre (talk) 16:13, 3 June 2009 (UTC)

Can we add a redirect to c++?

I noticed there's a message to redirect to C# (programming language) but not C++, even though C++ redirects to this page. can someone add C++ here too?