Date: Wed, 15 May 2002 10:58:58 -0700 From: Matthew Hunt <mph@astro.caltech.edu> To: Chris Pepper <pepper@reppep.com> Cc: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: conf/38096: Typos in /etc/make.conf Message-ID: <20020515105858.A38779@wopr.caltech.edu> In-Reply-To: <200205151420.g4FEK7X43405@freefall.freebsd.org>; from pepper@reppep.com on Wed, May 15, 2002 at 07:20:07AM -0700 References: <200205151420.g4FEK7X43405@freefall.freebsd.org>
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On Wed, May 15, 2002 at 07:20:07AM -0700, Chris Pepper wrote: > >a comma doesn't come after "i.e." ... does it? > > i.e. == for example, so I read it as "(for example, rather than" ... Aaaagh! i.e. != for example From Fowler's Modern English Usage, 3d ed.: 2. i.e. means 'that is to say', and introduces another way . . . of putting what has already been said. It does not introduce an illustrative example, for which e.g. is the proper formula. . . . 4. By its nature it is preceded by a mark of punctuation, usu. a comma. It is not normally followed by a comma unless that sense requires one, as when a parenthesis immediately follows . . . -- Matthew Hunt <mph@astro.caltech.edu> * UNIX is a lever for the http://www.pobox.com/~mph/ * intellect. -J.R. Mashey To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message
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