[英文筆記] Hat Tip

最近看一些論壇看到最後都會有HT或是H/T，於是查了一下究竟是什麼意思～
像是這篇Teepr的文章：33個會讓生活更便利的發明，文末顯示H/T BuzzFeed，
點下去則連結到BuzzFeed的"33 Ingeniously Designed Products You Need In Your Life"

H/T或是ht是 hat tip 的縮寫，本來的意思是「脫帽致意」，像這樣↓

Picture from here

但後來就延伸成「向...致意/致敬」的意思，現在尤其常見於部落格或是網路論壇，也可以寫成下列幾種樣貌

• #hattip
• HT
• h/t

來看看與Twitter相關的解釋：

A hat tip, or chapeau as they say in real life France, is a way to give credit where credit is due.
The shortened version, HT, acknowledges a little bit of someone else's genius, and save one whole character over typing "via" or "by".
That's what we'd tell you HT means on Twitter, anyway. According to in the early 20th centuries, a hat tip was "a common non-verbal greeting between friends or acquaintances while walking on a sidewalk or meeting at a social gathering." You know, when people used to wear hats all the time.
Now it's the head nod.
On Twitter, a HT is a new gateway into bylining a Tweet. Instead of taking credit for the Tweet, quote, idea or article, you add HT to your Tweet and suddenly you're absolved from stealing the credit. It's also a nice way to pass around the Twitter karma. You say I'm smart, I'll say you're smart, we'll all be smart together and host a Tweet-up!

（更詳細請見：HT(Hat tip) on Twitter）

脫帽是一種致敬的方式，而使用其縮寫HT致謝其他人的貢獻，比僅僅使用via或是by有格多了

這就是我們在Twitter上使用HT的意思，根據20世紀初期對於脫帽的定義：「一種普遍用於朋友或是點頭之交間在路上或是社交場合碰面的非口語打招呼方式」，你知道的，那時候大家總都戴著帽子。

現在就點個頭就好

現在在Twitter，HT是一種新的署名方式，在你的Tweet上加入HT，免除你將其他人的Tweet、引述、概念或是文章的功勞佔為己有的問題，這也是一種轉貼Tweet的好方式~（後略）

另外也有人說也可以解釋成heard through（聽說）：

原始連結：http://www.brentozar.com/archive/2008/08/twitter-101/

What does HT mean on Twitter?
HT is an acronym for Heard Through or Hat Tip. If you found out about something through a Twitter user, and you want to name ‘em by name, you Heard it Through them. This is different than RT, because it usually means you heard it in real life, not over Twitter.

最後，來看看Urban dictionary的定義和例句：

Abbreviation for "hat tip". Frequently used in blog postings to indicate the gratitude of the poster towards someone who drew his attention to or provided him with information relevant to the post. 

I've just discovered that the Illuminati were behind the 9/11 attacks!! www.cuttingedge.org/news/n1753.cfm. 

(ht jack t chick).

所以ht可以用在轉po或是你看到某些引述、文章，讓你寫下類似的、相關的文這些情況

今天又多學了一些東西 :D