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From: Philip Webb <purslow@ca.inter.net>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] A little help for non-native English speakers
Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2018 13:47:57 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180201184757.GT2030@ca.inter.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <p4vm79$ni6$1@blaine.gmane.org>

180201 Grant Edwards wrote:
> You also use e.g. when giving multiple examples.  To quote Grammar Girl.
>   "I like card games, e.g. bridge and crazy eights.
>   "Some people in life suffer misfortunes, e.g. fire, flood,
>    earthquake or a meteor strike."

And while we're at it (grin), 'e.g.' has the same force as 'etc',
so it's duplicating effort to write 'e.g. fire, flood etc'.

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  reply	other threads:[~2018-02-01 18:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 50+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-02-01 17:03 [gentoo-user] [OT] A little help for non-native English speakers Peter Humphrey
2018-02-01 18:12 ` Rich Freeman
2018-02-01 18:27   ` [gentoo-user] " Grant Edwards
2018-02-01 18:47     ` Philip Webb [this message]
2018-02-01 18:50       ` Neil Bothwick
2018-02-01 19:09         ` Grant Taylor
2018-02-01 19:25           ` Rich Freeman
2018-02-01 21:17         ` Philip Webb
2018-02-01 22:24           ` Neil Bothwick
2018-02-01 23:39             ` Peter Humphrey
2018-02-02  0:04               ` Neil Bothwick
2018-02-02  0:36                 ` Peter Humphrey
2018-02-02  1:30                   ` Neil Bothwick
2018-02-02  4:48                   ` allan gottlieb
2018-02-02  5:31                     ` Floyd Anderson
2018-02-01 23:36       ` Peter Humphrey
2018-02-01 18:55   ` [gentoo-user] " Neil Bothwick
2018-02-01 22:45     ` [gentoo-user] " Ian Zimmerman
2018-02-01 23:03       ` Neil Bothwick
2018-02-01 22:52     ` [gentoo-user] [OT] " Frank Steinmetzger
2018-02-01 23:05       ` Jack
2018-02-01 23:34         ` [gentoo-user] " Grant Edwards
2018-02-02  0:05           ` Neil Bothwick
2018-02-02  0:08           ` Jack
2018-02-03  0:19             ` Wol's lists
2018-02-03  8:43               ` Peter Humphrey
2018-02-03 17:24                 ` Wols Lists
2018-02-03 18:32                   ` Philip Webb
2018-02-01 23:42         ` [gentoo-user] " Frank Steinmetzger
2018-02-01 23:43       ` Peter Humphrey
2018-02-02  7:34       ` Alan McKinnon
2018-02-02  7:47         ` Frank Steinmetzger
2018-02-02  7:46           ` Alan McKinnon
2018-02-02  8:10         ` Neil Bothwick
2018-02-02 10:06           ` Alan McKinnon
2018-02-02 17:28           ` Grant Taylor
2018-02-03  0:21             ` Wol's lists
2018-02-02  4:06     ` Grant Taylor
2018-02-02  8:03       ` Neil Bothwick
2018-02-02 20:05         ` Grant Taylor
2018-02-02 20:34           ` Peter Humphrey
2018-02-02 23:44             ` Neil Bothwick
2018-02-03  8:44               ` Peter Humphrey
2018-02-02 20:37           ` allan gottlieb
2018-02-01 23:45   ` Peter Humphrey
2018-02-02  0:25 ` R0b0t1
2018-02-02  0:41   ` Peter Humphrey
2018-02-02  1:31     ` Neil Bothwick
2018-02-02  1:58       ` Rich Freeman
2018-02-03 13:46   ` Frank Steinmetzger

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