Possibly the silliest thing I've ever written

[triskellian]

I don't remember writing this, but I've just discovered it in a document I'm updating:

eg 'eg', 'etc', etc

It's explaining our house style on lack of full stops in addreviations and acronyms. I rather like it ;-)

Comments

[http://users.livejournal.com/_alanna/]

I'm afraid it's technically incorrect, I believe...

When you use 'e.g.', you shouldn't use 'etc.' at the end as well -you've already said that you're only giving examples, and implicitly there are more that you haven't stated.

So it should be: e.g. 'eg', 'etc'
or: 'eg', 'etc', etc

But given that I actually prefer your version, I'll stop being pedantic ;o)

[triskellian]

I know ;-) I suspect I added the final 'etc' cos I thought it was cute. And it's not as if any of the recipients of the document in question actually pay any attention anyway ;-)

[onebyone.livejournal.com]

However, you could change it to: ie 'ie', 'etc', etc.

[unknownid.livejournal.com]

bwahahaha.

this made me very happy. my happiness is only increased by my blissfully ignorance of grammatical rules.