If their first language is a Romance language it still isn’t an excuse, because “etc” comes from the Latin.
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TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I won’t dog on them since the context implies this is ESL, but seeing “etc.” punctuated as though it’s an acronym is unholy.
grue@lemmy.world 1 day ago
sukhmel@programming.dev 17 hours ago
But punctuation rules might be very different, e.g. in Spanish ordinal numerals are supposed to have a dot to denote that it’s a contraction: 1.º
Nowadays this seems to die down, but it still is in the rules:
Entre el número y la letra volada debe haber un punto.
There must be a period between the number and the superscript letter.
grue@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
Do any of those languages actually have a rule that you’re supposed to put a dot in the middle of “et,” though? It’d be pretty weird if they did because “et” is one word…
sukhmel@programming.dev 4 hours ago
No, it’s not that bad 😅
TwilightKiddy@programming.dev 1 day ago
Why did you have to point it out? I didn’t even notice until you did!