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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next prev parent 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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