From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: emacs-28 b7d7c2d9e9: Add cross-reference to alternative syntaxes for Unicode Date: Sat, 22 Oct 2022 16:05:28 -0400 Message-ID: References: <831qra8klo.fsf@gnu.org> <87mt9yxtvi.fsf@gmail.com> <83zgdy714g.fsf@gnu.org> <87pmepuq7r.fsf@gmail.com> <83y1tdyxbi.fsf@gnu.org> <83ilkcv0qm.fsf@gnu.org> <87bkq45mmm.fsf@yahoo.com> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="30950"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: eliz@gnu.org, rpluim@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Po Lu Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Mon Oct 24 08:30:35 2022 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1omqyp-0007qK-8z for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 24 Oct 2022 08:30:35 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1omjQr-0002HD-PD for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 23 Oct 2022 18:27:01 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1omKkM-00035x-Jb for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 22 Oct 2022 16:05:30 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1omKkM-0006Eo-4L; Sat, 22 Oct 2022 16:05:30 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=Date:References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From: mime-version; bh=CrWUFlpIsvZ4A00IgN23W5qwgsPoguJkrUxJ9ebawL8=; b=WrUAuh+J3mLI N7N3lFaxLkLeLF8cM+FTNIuyeHWK8d4m8jIKUPUwAj4WspCh+u1oR4c7zAyXtPU9Y8xNJM32aysCH jAiGw8giOe5pcAaslh5PNsQdWa3oG52LFOG/YvD6FPTn0u1IX/9wE0i4vNmU0hFtOSYSOSLhqBVw9 6Yq5XGipzNxFdwpjXNEQcB0ZL8l6/VZZ/L6pEKXYTc4SUv0w0aVviYfcFSLQ/6OjJM/y3q04GCXvF btByu8uS3wd7WMe/p7jJznq0xEXyjxS+wqVv6FGYdo89v9OjLpnh+Mr235fKrjXXB/mboK8hIJm7s kOzKkyiKZlddJXgd6X9C3Q==; Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1omKkK-0002DO-4u; Sat, 22 Oct 2022 16:05:28 -0400 In-Reply-To: <87bkq45mmm.fsf@yahoo.com> (message from Po Lu on Sat, 22 Oct 2022 15:43:45 +0800) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:298338 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > FWIW, even living in a country where the average level of proficiency in > English is very low, I find that most people are able to understand > abbreviations such as "i.e." and "e.g."; they are taught in the > education system and are in fact used quite often on the internet. I suspect it varies from country to country. I would not know where to find the reports I got that people had trouble understanding these Latin abbreviations, since it was years ago, but I did get them. People who don't recognize "e.g." will certainly recognize "for example", so there's no harm in choosing the latter. -- Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org) Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)