On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 01:17:28AM +0400, Vadim Zhukov wrote: > On 30 July 2010 c. 00:37:23 Kenneth R Westerback wrote: > > On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 10:54:29AM -0700, Randal L. Schwartz wrote: > > > >>>>> "Jason" == Jason McIntyre <j...@kerhand.co.uk> writes: > > > > > > Jason> fixed this and the syslogd_flags example above it, which had > > > the same Jason> error. > > > > > > The style guide for a former employer of mine forbid these, > > > requiring us to spell out "for example" and "that is". Even if you > > > can get them right, it's not obvious that the reader would know them > > > as well. > > > > > > > > > -- > > > Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 > > > 777 0095 <mer...@stonehenge.com> > > > <URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/> Smalltalk/Perl/Unix > > > consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. See > > > http://methodsandmessages.vox.com/ for Smalltalk and Seaside > > > discussion > > > > You mean not everyone speaks enough latin to know the difference > > between "exempli gratia" and "id est"? What is modern education > > coming to. > > Well, here, in Russia, while English/German/French are more or less > popular in the schools, Latin is being learned by specialists only > (medicians, historians etc.) almost. And it's the way it is for about a > century, if not more.
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