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grue@lemmy.world 1 day agoIf their first language is a Romance language it still isn’t an excuse, because “etc” comes from the Latin.
Comment on Anon tries to lose weight
grue@lemmy.world 1 day agoIf their first language is a Romance language it still isn’t an excuse, because “etc” comes from the Latin.
sukhmel@programming.dev 16 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:
www.rae.es/buen-uso-español/los-ordinales
grue@lemmy.world 14 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 3 hours ago
No, it’s not that bad 😅