Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From:	Peter Humphrey <peter@××××××××××××.uk>
To:	gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject:	Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] A little help for non-native English speakers
Date:	Thu, 01 Feb 2018 23:43:36
Message-Id:	`4356306.GlTRziKFSK@peak`
In Reply to:	Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] A little help for non-native English speakers by Frank Steinmetzger

1	On Thursday, 1 February 2018 22:52:14 GMT Frank Steinmetzger wrote:
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3	> PS.: As a non-native, I always found e.g. and i.e. easy to keep apart
4	> because when you say "e.g." as a word without the dots, it becomes "eg",
5	> which, phonetically, is the start of the word "example".
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8	Aargh! No, no, no. There are no gs in an x. Say after me: "ecs-ample".
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11	Regards,
12	Peter.