From: Erik Rijkers <er@xs4all.nl>
To: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
Cc: PostgreSQL-documentation <pgsql-docs@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: Add comma after e.g. and i.e.?
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2020 21:03:34 +0200
Message-ID: <f29e3aaa27ff9fa6e5fc363527a6a0f8@xs4all.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200825183619.GA22369@momjian.us>
References: <20200825183619.GA22369@momjian.us>
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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