Re: Phrases that should be banned on Usenet (Was: Command Languages Versus Programming Languages)

On 09.04.2024 17:30, candycanearter07 wrote:

Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com> wrote at 07:24 this Tuesday (GMT):

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Id est, exempli gratia, focussing on the argument per se, as
Kaz sensibly suggested. :-)
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(It's good that in English most of the Latin is hidden behind
abbreviations like i.e. and e.g.; but there's no abbreviation
for "per se"? Probably because p.s. is already occupied?)

 
I think it might be because per se is so short.

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Not shorter than "id est". ;-)
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Janis