On Thu, 2019-09-19 at 11:34 +0000, Ed Maste wrote: > Author: emaste > Date: Thu Sep 19 11:34:35 2019 > New Revision: 352513 > URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/352513 > > Log: > freebsd-update.8: appease igor > > igor follows American style guides in the belief that abbreviations i.e. > and e.g. are always followed by a comma. Make that change now so that > future updates to freebsd-update.8 do not complain about this. > >
Grammatically, English requires a comma after 'i.e.' because it is an adverbial phrase functioning as a conjunctive adverb. If you translate 'e.g.' idiomatically as "for example", then it is also a conjunctive adverbial phrase requiring a comma. -- Ian _______________________________________________ svn-src-head@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/svn-src-head To unsubscribe, send any mail to "svn-src-head-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
