i.e. and e.g. are abbreviations for Latin phrases, which, I've forgotten, I
think.
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"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message
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I do use periods for e.g. and i.e., but they are not capitalized.

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"Jezebel" wrote in message
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And you don't use periods for e.g. and i.e. ?




"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message
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If the abbreviation were MR and pronounced as separate letters rather
than
"Mister," I might be more inclined to agree with you.

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"Jezebel" wrote in message
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As in

Fairhope, Alabama U.S.A.
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?





"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message
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"Good" in this case can be defined as "what you're used to." "Mr."
is
an
abbreviation; as such, we USians believe it needs a period.

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"Jezebel" wrote in message
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It might be normal. That doesn't make it good.


"Tony Jollans" My Forename at My Surname dot com wrote in message
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I think this is a difference in English vs.American usage. In UK
English
Mr
(without the full stop) is good; in US English Mr. (with the
period)
is
normal.

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"Greg Maxey" wrote in message
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While slightly off subject, what is superfluous about the period
following
"Mr" in my example? Are you saying that it isn't necessary and
that
simply
Mr will do or is it tied to your greater aversion to
abbreviations
in
general and that Mister should be used in the example to avoid
confusion?

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Jezebel wrote:
Word's estimate of sentences is necessarily a somewhat fuzzy
piece
of
logic; abbreviations -- or superfluous periods, as in your
example --
are
always going to be problematic.


"Greg Maxey" wrote in message
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That doesn't work so well Jezebel.

Consider:

How did Mr. Smith get to Washington?

That is not two sentences.

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Jezebel wrote:
It is VBA, but all it takes in a macro is

msgbox("Sentences = " & activedocument.Sentences.Count)




"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message
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I suspected this might be available through the readability
statistics, but (short of VBA) there's no way to access
those
without checking grammar, which is a huge PITA.

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"Greg Maxey" wrote in message
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Look at readability statistics. ToolsOptionsSpelling
and
Grammar and check Show readability statistics. Consider
the
following: Did Mr. Smith go to Washington? I don't know
Mrs.
Jones;
you will
have to
ask Mr. Smith.


ToolsSpelling and Grammar.

Words: 18
Characters: 71
Paragraphs: 1
Sentences: 2



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Suzanne S. Barnhill wrote:
Does it? Word Count counts pages, words, characters (with
and
without spaces), paragraphs, and lines, but not
sentences.
But
if Word tried to
count sentences, most users would not be satisfied
because
it
would have to
count anything ending in a period as a sentence, which is
what
it
does when
you use Ctrl+click to select a sentence, and this
includes
the
periods after
abbreviations.


"garfield-n-odie"

wrote
in message
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This feature already exists within Word, so there is no
need
for
you to suggest it to Microsoft.

Connor wrote:

When i do my weekly composition for seventh grade it
has
to
be
a minimum
of
fifteen sentences. If the word count feature could
count
sentences as
well, I
would not have to do it manually.

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