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Subject:    Re: [opensuse] On Grammar (OT) (was Re: a thought about file wiping tools)
From:       Sven Burmeister <sven.burmeister () gmx ! net>
Date:       2012-09-18 12:34:24
Message-ID: 19006900.epLSsLmSW9 () linux-ly0d
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Am Dienstag, 18. September 2012, 08:19:34 schrieb Anton Aylward:
> All that being said in most usage - including Fowler and Webster's -
> seems, rightly or wrongly, to prefer "e.g.," and "i.e.,".

In German abbreviations etc. are/can be separated with a thin space. Yet since 
there is no key for that on a keyboard only professional layouts have it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thin_space

Sven
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