[Dragaera] Dzur- Possible spoilers (A question of editing)
Howard Brazee
howard at brazee.net
Wed Aug 9 09:29:09 PDT 2006
Jon_Lincicum at stream.com wrote:
>>"I still had all ten fingers, but let's &c."
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>The ampersand (&) character is a stylized representation of the Latin word
>"et".
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>Ergo, when we see &c, we can read this as "etc", which is short for "et
>cetera", Latin for "and soforth" (approximately).
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>So, the &c is simply a stylistic alternative to etc.
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I never would have guessed that. But let's replace it and see if it
makes sense:
"I still had all ten fingers, but let's et cetera".
Nope.
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