Re: Add comma after e.g. and i.e.? - Mailing list pgsql-docs

From Erik Rijkers
Subject Re: Add comma after e.g. and i.e.?
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Msg-id f29e3aaa27ff9fa6e5fc363527a6a0f8@xs4all.nl
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In response to Add comma after e.g. and i.e.?  (Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>)
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On 2020-08-25 20:36, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> We are inconsistently about adding a comma after e.g. and i.e.:
[..]

>     Virtually all American style guides recommend to follow both “i.e.” 
> and
>     “e.g.” with a comma (just like if “that is” and “for example” were 
> used
>     instead), so the very same sentence in American English would become:
> 
> So, what do we want to do?  Leave it unchanged, or pick one of these
> styles?


For what it's worth, I am in favor of that comma.


Erik Rijkers



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