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From: | Trevor Daniels |
Subject: | Re: Typos in English manual |
Date: | Sun, 1 Aug 2010 09:20:52 +0100 |
Carl Sorensen wrote Sunday, August 01, 2010 1:54 AM
On 7/31/10 5:51 PM, "Wols Lists" <address@hidden> wrote:Do you put a comma after "that is"? Either way, it feels right. I'd be inclined to say "don't stick a comma after a full stop", and yes I know that the dot isn't really a full stop at this point but the sequence"dot comma" still feels wrong.Of course, we might want to consider (for the sake of non-native english speakers) actually deprecating both i.e. and e.g., and replacing them with "that is" and "for example".
I agree with this. A comma after "i.e." looks definitely wrong to me as an English English speaker, but it's correct after "that is". So if a change is to be made let's go for the full English expansions, with commas. Trevor
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