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   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   
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