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From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com>
Cc: eliz@gnu.org, rpluim@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: emacs-28 b7d7c2d9e9: Add cross-reference to alternative syntaxes for Unicode
Date: Sat, 22 Oct 2022 16:05:28 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1omKkK-0002DO-4u@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87bkq45mmm.fsf@yahoo.com> (message from Po Lu on Sat, 22 Oct 2022 15:43:45 +0800)

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  > 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.

-- 
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  reply	other threads:[~2022-10-22 20:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-10-14 15:56 emacs-28 b7d7c2d9e9: Add cross-reference to alternative syntaxes for Unicode Eli Zaretskii
2022-10-14 16:17 ` Robert Pluim
2022-10-14 17:42   ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-10-18 15:05     ` Robert Pluim
2022-10-18 15:18       ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-10-18 15:58         ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-10-18 16:06           ` Robert Pluim
2022-10-21 19:42         ` Richard Stallman
2022-10-22  6:19           ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-10-22  7:43             ` Po Lu
2022-10-22 20:05               ` Richard Stallman [this message]
2022-10-24  4:40                 ` Christopher Dimech
2022-10-24 13:06                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-10-22 17:22             ` [External] : " Drew Adams
2022-10-24  3:05               ` RE: [External] : " Christopher Dimech
2022-10-22 20:06             ` Richard Stallman
2022-10-23  5:15               ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-10-24 19:31                 ` Richard Stallman
2022-10-24 19:44                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-10-24 19:57                   ` Christopher Dimech

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