I think this sentence is hard to read because the transliteration of the ampersand changes halfway through. Of course "&" is Latin "et", but can also be read as English "and"; maybe not both at one time, though.

altaira, you said it better that I did... :-)

Another thing I wanted to mention is that some ampersand symbols are more apt to be read as "et" than others -- i.e., some are closer in form to the letters "e" and "t,"while others are a bit more abstract.

To me, it’s Bund.

Very complicated and an insult to strangers.

? Are all the other, non-ampersanded words that also require Dutch to understand also insults to strangers? :-)

And [text] fonts with ampersands that look like an “e”+”t” need to be fixed.

Does this proclamation include italic ampersands?

There are a lot of people living here that have different nationalities. Now image this: I need to get rid of some garbage and want to call Tw&nte Milieu. How do I get their phonenumber from the guide or online if I don’t know that & stand for en.?

All public utlities and amenities need names that can be understood by everyone. Without a grade in cryptography. Lets just condense this to: names should only use a–z and 0–9.

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Bert Vanderveen BNO

I think you might only be able to get away with it if you're Alfred Bester and you surround yourself with people named stuff like Br&on M@eson. Speaking of which, has anyone done a typographical study of him? He did a lot of odd typographical things as part of his writing style. The guy wrote a whole scene in musical notation.