On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 4:49 PM, Ed Ahlsen-Girard <eagir...@cox.net> wrote: > 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.
Romanus eunt domus
