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Wow. All you guys need in SF is more ticketing systems. There is already what? 3? 4? In places like e.g. Germany, you have one ticketing system being serviced b
by fijal 12y ago
Wow. All you guys need in SF is more ticketing systems. There is already what? 3? 4? In places like e.g. Germany, you have one ticketing system being serviced by different companies that all bid for the slots based on their costs (including the official railway service DB) without inconviniencing the customer.
- msandford 12y agoIt bugs me an unreasonable amount when people misuse eg. > In places like e.g. Germany, you have... This is not the correct way to do it, and it makes it look as though you're trying too hard. You're using a fancy latin word, but you're using it wrong. http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/e.g http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/e.g. The way to write that sentence would have been: In other places around the world e.g. Germany, you have... Sorry for the rant. I see this on HN all the time. It's not just you. It's unreasonable for me to be annoyed by it and even moreso if I do nothing to address it.
- fijal 12y agoI'm very sorry dear sir, english is by far not my native language (I'm pretty glad you got fooled though), I will try to do better next time and please accept my apologies EDIT: Wiktionary does not yet have an entry for e.g.
- maaarghk 12y agohttp://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/e.g%2E http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/e.g%2E Try that. But the poster above was right with unreasonable. "e.g." is hardly a "fancy Latin word", it's in common everyday usage and everyone knows what you mean when you use it. Anyway, sorry, none of this really adds to the discussion. Leap looks like a terrible extravagance from where I'm sitting in the UK and I agree wholeheartedly with the largely sceptical tone of the comments below.
- msandford 12y agoNo need to apologize, I'm the one being unreasonable!
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