Subj : To find a subject... 1. To : Ardith Hinton From : Alexander Koryagin Date : Mon Jul 05 2021 13:09:54 Hi, Ardith Hinton! -> Alexander Koryagin I read your message from 30.06.2021 23:58 AK>> It's shame for me that I am so lazy and don't ask you for more. AH> Your usual pace is about right for me. I often wish I could answer AH> more messages, but there are only so many hours in a day.: - Q Probably I could ask more if were a retiree. But it will not be soon. Putin doesn't have money to pay pensions, and he decided to rise the retirement age. ;-) AH> While many sources regard "period" & "full stop" as synonymous, AH> BTW, my inclination is to think of a period as a punctuation mark AH> (.) which is used in various ways but may be called a "full stop" AH> at the end of a sentence. I'm very careful to make such AH> distinctions in my own writing. However, it seems I am often AH> overruled because double spacing isn't allowed in programming AH> jargon. While it try to make my writing understandable to my AH> audience, I am constantly thwarted by programmers who believe they AH> can make it more efficient... (sigh). AH>> (While I've seen no evidence of it myself I imagine some folks AH>> might argue that because the periods are often left out of various AH>> other abbreviations nowadays they can leave out the period AH>> with "etc." too. And not evverybody agrees about how to handle end AH>> punctuation in various cases). In the Russian language we have the rule that no additional full stop is put at the end of the sentence where the last word is a shorten word with a period. But if you see logical and correct "etc.?" then "etc.." is also logical. But I am sure everybody throws the last full stop away. Bye, Ardith! Alexander Koryagin english_tutor 2021 --- * Origin: nntp://news.fidonet.fi (2:221/6.0) .