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Re: lynx-dev i.e. nits
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T.E.Dickey |
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Re: lynx-dev i.e. nits |
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Thu, 9 Dec 1999 09:09:00 -0500 (EST) |
>
> In noticed Tom seems to replace all (or many?) occurrences of "i.e."
> with "i.e.," in some automated fashion. This doesn't seem right to
> me, in general. Possibly similar for "e.g.". Why not just leave
> them alone as whoever wrote them wrote them.
It's one of those things that I was taught a long time ago as proper usage.
> And then there are occurrences of "i.e. " being replaced by "i.e. ",
> i.e. the dot is treaded like the end of a sentence...
>
> Klaus
>
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