Grammar: Doesn't anyone else want a sentence ending with "etc." to have 2 periods?

[trackfan]

I've never seen this, but I logically wish it. (Sorry for the locution "logically wish", but fuck you). The first period is for the abbreviation, the second is for the sentence. It makes the most sense. This, of course, applies to any abbreviation which might end a sentence.
Obviously, I had drinks at lunch.

[flvegan]

1. What if it should end with an ellipsis?

Is it ect... or etc.... ?

[trackfan]

4. My style rule dicates ....

[RadiationTherapy]

22. BAAAAHHHH!!

It is E - T - C as in Et cetera. Wow, you tapped a nerve with that one.

Also, etc + ellipses seems redundant to me, but no rule that I know of.

[Bake]

2. Solution: don't end sentences with "etc." (like I just did)

Problem solved!

:hi:

Bake

[trackfan]

3. That's what I do - but I feel so limited!

It stunts my range of expression.

[geardaddy]

5. How about spelling it out?

:shrug:

[trackfan]

6. It would seem too pretentiously erudite.

[geardaddy]

9. I suppose.

:shrug:

[MorningGlow]

19. Hmmm...

Et-a-cetera, et-a-cetera, et-a-cetera! :rofl:

[geardaddy]

21. lmao

:rofl:

[SteppingRazor]

7. No. n/t

[trackfan]

8. It only takes one white crow to render the statement that all are black false!

[SteppingRazor]

10. Yes, but one period at the end of a sentence is a distinct rule...

while I can't rule out the possibility of your theoretical albino crow. (Of course, that's probably because I'm an editor by trade. Were I a biologist, the crow would probably piss me off more. :P )

[trackfan]

11. I'd ease some of the rules. For instance,

I'd allow "goed", but not the abomination "wented".

[SteppingRazor]

12. I'd respond in more detail, but my head's about to explode.

:P

[KamaAina]

14. No..

as in "One is the loneliest No.." :P

[Rabrrrrrr]

13. I agree with you. See my other post on more mathematically precise punctuation.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=105&topic_id=7588848&mesg_id=7591012

[LynzM]

18. LMAO

That. Was. Awesome. :rofl:

[pitohui]

15. four periods

one period is for the abbreviation, the three periods (ellipsis is it called?) is for the fact that you've left something open-ended

i dreamed i wore my maidenform bra...

i dreamed i wore a thong, high-heeled spike heels, etc....

am i wrong folks?

[tjwmason]

16. No.

I can't remember whether it was in Fowler's "Modern English Usage" or Fowler's "The King's English" - but I did read it specified that where a sentence ends with a full-stop indicating an abbreviation this also fulfills the role of ending the sentence; though if the sentence is due to end with a stop other than a full-stop (e.g., a question mark or exclamation mark) then both should be present.

[LynzM]

17. You should send this to....

Sars of tomatonation.com grammar fame :)

[Tommy_Carcetti]

20. I wish that "irregardless" was a real word....

...because it flows so much better off the tounge than "regardless" or "irrespective", both of which are choppy. But "irregardless", it has a certain musical quality to it.

I also wish I could divide by 0. Always wanted to do it. Teachers never let me, though.