Re: Darwinian evolution vs memetic evolution

From: Wade T.Smith (wade_smith@harvard.edu)
Date: Sat Feb 17 2001 - 18:24:48 GMT

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    Hi Scott Chase -

    >BTW what's the story with "&c"? Why is "etc." preferred?

    Etc. is an abbreviation of the latin 'et cetera', literally 'and others'.
    The ampersand is an abbreviation of 'and', so, not that either is
    preferred, but, using a symbol is considered non-formal, and the use of
    latin phrases is, ahem, decidedly formal.

    Then again, I prefer to spell the whole damn thing out in black-tie
    letters.

    - Wade

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