From: Marco Peereboom <slash () peereboom ! us> Date: 2010-07-29 23:25:14
> > 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 > > > > Jason> 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. > > In russia latin learns you! Omnia dici possunt Latine. -- Edward Ahlsen-Girard Ft Walton Beach, FL
