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(Maybe that is not good English? The Swedish equivalent is > perfectly OK even though you perhaps would more likely use the likewise > abbreviated Swedish calques rather than the Latin "etc.") > Correct. It's not good English. :-) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "pandoc-discuss" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to pandoc-discuss+unsubscribe-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFF+G/Ez6ZCGd0@public.gmane.org To post to this group, send email to pandoc-discuss-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFF+G/Ez6ZCGd0@public.gmane.org To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/pandoc-discuss/eca9cde4-5901-489e-b5f3-598b8318a903%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. ------=_Part_8538_1005733684.1510527484724 Content-Type: text/html; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
On Saturday, November 11, 2017 at 3:40:41 AM UTC-5, BP wro= te:
I can eas= ily think of examples where "etc." is neither at the end of a sen= tence nor followed by a comma, like "Apples etc. should be put in the = basket." (Maybe that is not good English? The Swedish equivalent is pe= rfectly OK even though you perhaps would more likely use the likewise abbre= viated Swedish calques rather than the Latin "etc.")

Correct. It's not good English. :-)=C2=A0

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