Re: FN-FORUM: 10 Grammar Mistakes That Make You Look Stupid

date posted 20th May 2007 13:13

Full stop is not wrong.
Dr Persson or Dr. Persson
i.e. or i.e.,
The 'comma' is to me essential as the dot doesn't mean end of the
sentence (not always anyway).

Bo
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20 maj 2007 kl. 13.15 skrev Lists (Kathy):

>
> Strange. Thirty years ago, we always put in the full stops after
> abbreviations (e.g., i.e., Mr.). It wasn't until the mid-80s that we
> started using block layout and dropping the full stops. Never had a
> problem with separate. To me, if things are sePARAte, they are
> PARAllel,
> not joined, so an E just doesn't seem logical.
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>>
>> I demand that Ben Johnson (Neogic) F [EMAIL REMOVED]
> may (or may not) have written:
>>
>>>
>>>> Comma after e.g. and i.e.? Is that an American thing?
>>>
>>> I use "e.g., .." because it better represents what the abbreviation
>>> stands for: "for example, ". Granted, though, it's quite punctuation
>>> heavy.
>>>
>>> The Economist Style Guide says you should use a comma, but can get
>>> away without the abbreviation full stops (i.e., "ie, ..") but that
>>> looks slightly odd to my eyes and MS Spell Check gives you a hard
>>> time!
>>
>> Personally I'd never put a comma after them, and never have in 30
>> years professional writing or put both periods in, no matter how
>> "right" it theoretically is. (Unless house style demanded it, of
>> course.)
>>
>>> PS: My cardinal sin until recently was "seperate" instead of
> "separate". :)
>>
>> Mnemonic for you: "separate" has got a "a rat" in it. It always used
>> to get me until I learned that.
>>
>>
>>
>> Steve
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