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From: barryg@sdcrdcf.UUCP (Barry Gold)
Newsgroups: net.misc,net.nlang,net.flame
Subject: Re: misused abbreviations, e.g. "i.e."
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Date: Fri, 18-May-84 01:23:13 EDT
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Posted: Fri May 18 01:23:13 1984
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E.g. stands for "exempli gratia" (free example).

One of my own pet peeves is people using "etc." at the end of a
phrase introduced by "e.g."  Since they're giving a list of examples,
there are presumably lots of similar things, and they are giving only an
incomplete list.

(And one of the interesting things about the Japanese language--to wander
further afield--is that it has two different words for "and" - depending
on whether you are getting a complete or an incomplete list.)

--Lee Gold
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	Barry Gold/Lee Gold
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