On Thu, 9 Dec 1999, T.E.Dickey wrote:
>Date: Thu, 9 Dec 1999 09:09:00 -0500 (EST)
>From: T.E.Dickey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: Re: lynx-dev i.e. nits
>
>>
>> In noticed Tom seems to replace all (or many?) occurrences of "i.e."
>> with "i.e.," in some automated fashion. This doesn't seem right to
>> me, in general. Possibly similar for "e.g.". Why not just leave
>> them alone as whoever wrote them wrote them.
>
>It's one of those things that I was taught a long time ago as proper usage.
but i.e. means 'that is'.
I have a green car, i.e. an Emerald Mica Miata.
Is it really proper to say:
I have a green car, that is, an Emerald Mica Miata.
???
Sure seems like a comma is misplaced there. If this really is the proper
way, it sounds like one of the few rules I will purposefully break. The most
obvious one I don't follow is putting punctuation within quotes. Obviously I'm
thinking like a programmer and don't want the damn punctuation in the quotes.
