From owner-freebsd-bugs Wed May 15 11: 0:17 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Received: from wopr.caltech.edu (wopr.caltech.edu [131.215.103.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1CE1237BA3B for ; Wed, 15 May 2002 10:59:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from mph@localhost) by wopr.caltech.edu (8.11.6/8.9.3) id g4FHwwE38943; Wed, 15 May 2002 10:58:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mph) Date: Wed, 15 May 2002 10:58:58 -0700 From: Matthew Hunt To: Chris Pepper Cc: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: conf/38096: Typos in /etc/make.conf Message-ID: <20020515105858.A38779@wopr.caltech.edu> References: <200205151420.g4FEK7X43405@freefall.freebsd.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <200205151420.g4FEK7X43405@freefall.freebsd.org>; from pepper@reppep.com on Wed, May 15, 2002 at 07:20:07AM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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 * 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