Re: [Firebird-devel] Firebird message file and use of inconsistent and deprecated terms

[Paul R. <pr...@ib...>]

On Tuesday 24 July 2007 16:47, Bill Oliver wrote:
> ERROR: etc (Deprecated Abbreviation - use "and so on") Note: Do not use
> Latin abbreviations.
>

I'm intrigued. Why deprecate latin abbreviations? It doesn't make sense to 
me. And this is possibly the worst example you could choose. etc is as 
english (linguistically) as any other part of the language.


Paul
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