> "Michael" == Michael G Schwern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Michael> I'm going to come at this from a different angle. One that
Michael> says "leave it as ie/eg" or perhaps simply "who cares?"
Michael> because the effort to correct all the ie's and eg's and it's
Michael> and [ae]ffects just
Michael G Schwern wrote:
[...]
While I thank you very much for the effort to scan the documentation to find
grammar nits, and I realize Open Source is about scratching an itch, software
is about change management. Which is why I say to stop fiddling with the
(ie/i.e.)'s, the (eg/e.g.)'s, the
Michael G Schwern wrote:
>
> What it does add is MAINTENANCE COST. Maintaining an extreme level
> of grammatical correctness and consistency over a large collection with
> multiple authors takes time and effort not just from the person doing the
> initial grammar fix but from all the CPAN authors
On Wed, Sep 07, 2005 at 01:04:00PM -0400, Mark Jason Dominus wrote:
> > I was struck by one of my own: exempli gratia being abbreviated to eg or
> > eg., rather than e.g.
>
> I would like to suggest that Latin is obscure, and latin abbreviations
> are doubly obscure. There is no space constraint
