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From: Peter Humphrey <peter@prh.myzen.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] A little help for non-native English speakers
Date: Thu, 01 Feb 2018 23:36:50 +0000
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On Thursday, 1 February 2018 18:47:57 GMT Philip Webb wrote:
> 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'.

No, it doesn't. I think what you mean is that it doesn't make sense to say 
"for example, ... , all the rest." In other words, you can't sensibly say 
all the rest are an example. I agree with that.

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Regards,
Peter.