this post was submitted on 30 Jun 2026
487 points (97.8% liked)
Greentext
8448 readers
887 users here now
This is a place to share greentexts and witness the confounding life of Anon. If you're new to the Greentext community, think of it as a sort of zoo with Anon as the main attraction.
Be warned:
- Anon is often crazy.
- Anon is often depressed.
- Anon frequently shares thoughts that are immature, offensive, or incomprehensible.
If you find yourself getting angry (or god forbid, agreeing) with something Anon has said, you might be doing it wrong.
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
I won't dog on them since the context implies this is ESL, but seeing "etc." punctuated as though it's an acronym is unholy.
Why did you have to point it out? I didn't even notice until you did!
If their first language is a Romance language it still isn't an excuse, because "etc" comes from the Latin.
But punctuation rules might be very different, e.g. in Spanish ordinal numerals are supposed to have a dot to denote that it's a contraction: 1.º
Nowadays this seems to die down, but it still is in the rules:
https://www.rae.es/buen-uso-espa%C3%B1ol/los-ordinales
Do any of those languages actually have a rule that you're supposed to put a dot in the middle of "et," though? It'd be pretty weird if they did because "et" is one word...
"e.t.c." makes about as much sense as "a.n.d. other things."
(At least the old-fashioned English way of doing it, with a ligature connecting the e and t like so: "&c" was somewhat reasonable.)
No, it's not that bad 😅
Extra Truncated Cases