[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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