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rrthomas / hpmor

PDF, ePUB and Mobi versions of “Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality”, from LaTeX source
http://hpmor.com/
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et cetera #139

Closed entorb closed 1 year ago

entorb commented 1 year ago

etcetera -> et cetera

rrthomas commented 1 year ago

I think these are all legit English: spelling "et cetera" as a single word when it's in an informal context (as in all the examples you've changed) is a nice way to show that the speaker is not being pedantic or precise. Rather like other more obvious contractions such as "don't". Sometimes I've also seen even more phonetic laziness, such as "eksetra".

entorb commented 1 year ago

Ah, thanks for checking!