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From: Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@gmail.com>
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] A little help for non-native English speakers
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On 2018-02-01, Jack <ostroffjh@users.sourceforge.net> wrote:
> On 2018.02.01 17:52, Frank Steinmetzger wrote:
> [snip...]
>> PS.: As a non-native, I always found e.g. and i.e. easy to keep apart  
>> because when you say "e.g." as a word without the dots, it becomes  
>> "eg", which, phonetically, is the start of the word "example".
>
> A non-native speaker of English, or a non-native speaker of Latin?

Are there any native speakers of Latin?

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