Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2019 09:24:53 -0600 From: Ian Lepore <ian@freebsd.org> To: Ed Maste <emaste@FreeBSD.org>, src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-head@freebsd.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r352513 - head/usr.sbin/freebsd-update Message-ID: <f19b594931177de47a97d8d595943a24977b5c2e.camel@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <201909191134.x8JBYZMv004854@repo.freebsd.org> References: <201909191134.x8JBYZMv004854@repo.freebsd.org>
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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
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