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Wrong. Look at any dictionary. Etc is completely fine. What next, are you going to pretend you write N.A.S.A. or Mr. White? Come on

MindBeams 2y ago
>Mr. White As opposed to what, exactly?
- milesrout 2y ago
  Mr White, which is correct English. I believe Americans might put a dot after these abbreviations, but nobody else does.
handoflixue 2y ago
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/etc https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/etc. - even the URL has the period, and I did in fact look this up before replying :) https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/etc https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/etc even redirects to the correct URL with a "."
- milesrout 2y ago
  Merriam-Webster is an American dictionary and therefore totally irrelevant to me.
  - handoflixue 2y ago
    You said "look at any dictionary", so I did. I notice you can't provide a link to a single dictionary that supports you, or even name what dialect supposedly doesn't have "etc."
zamalek 2y ago
Etc. is an abbreviation for etcetera. Correctly signifying contractions, abbreviations, and acronyms is far more commonplace than using the correct dash. Almost everyone would have learned about shortening words in high school; many people leave university without ever having heard of an em dash.
- milesrout 2y ago
  Etc is also an abbreviation of et cetera. Only Americans put pointless dots everywhere. This is all stuff you learn in school. Punctuation isn't obscure or niche. You may not have learnt about semicolons or em dashes in school but you should have and I did. As did anyone that has ever read a novel. There are two semicolons on the first page of the first Harry Potter book, a novel read by approximately every child of my generation. There are loads of examples of the proper use of dashes and other "obscure" punctuation marks in any professionally typeset text.
  - zamalek 2y ago
    > Only Americans I was raised and educated in Africa, specifically the GCSE curriculum. I was taught to use etc.

MindBeams 2y ago

>Mr. White As opposed to what, exactly?

milesrout 2y ago
Mr White, which is correct English. I believe Americans might put a dot after these abbreviations, but nobody else does.

handoflixue 2y ago

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/etc https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/etc. - even the URL has the period, and I did in fact look this up before replying :) https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/etc https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/etc even redirects to the correct URL with a "."

milesrout 2y ago
Merriam-Webster is an American dictionary and therefore totally irrelevant to me.
- handoflixue 2y ago
  You said "look at any dictionary", so I did. I notice you can't provide a link to a single dictionary that supports you, or even name what dialect supposedly doesn't have "etc."

zamalek 2y ago

Etc. is an abbreviation for etcetera. Correctly signifying contractions, abbreviations, and acronyms is far more commonplace than using the correct dash. Almost everyone would have learned about shortening words in high school; many people leave university without ever having heard of an em dash.

milesrout 2y ago
Etc is also an abbreviation of et cetera. Only Americans put pointless dots everywhere. This is all stuff you learn in school. Punctuation isn't obscure or niche. You may not have learnt about semicolons or em dashes in school but you should have and I did. As did anyone that has ever read a novel. There are two semicolons on the first page of the first Harry Potter book, a novel read by approximately every child of my generation. There are loads of examples of the proper use of dashes and other "obscure" punctuation marks in any professionally typeset text.
- zamalek 2y ago
  > Only Americans I was raised and educated in Africa, specifically the GCSE curriculum. I was taught to use etc.