Talk:E.g. vs. i.e.

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1 2007-02-1 Automated pywikipediabot message
2 Grammatical Error
3 Gimme some space, willya?
4 At least one of the templates applied to this entry has grammatical errors

[edit] 2007-02-1 Automated pywikipediabot message

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[edit] Grammatical Error

I find it ironic that an aricle correcting a common mistake includes another common mistake in the process.

Periods and commas always go INSIDE quotation marks; therefore, sentance two of paragraph two should have the comma inside the quotation mark rather than outside.--159.127.66.112 18:36, 3 March 2007 (UTC)

"Sentance"? See Skitt's law. :) Anyway, Wikipedia style follows the European convention in this case, for good reasons that I'll let the Manual of Style explain. If a period or comma is being quoted, it goes inside the quotation; if a period or comma is part of the current sentence but wasn't part of the quotation, it goes outside. (In other words, all punctuation follows the same rules as exclamation points and question marks do in correct American usage.) --Quuxplusone 18:39, 3 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Gimme some space, willya?

Shouldn't there be a space between e. and g. and i. and e.? Maikel 00:52, 8 March 2007 (UTC)

Nope. They are both abreviations and as such do not deserve spaces. As an aside, British English often leaves out the space, the periods and the comma altogether.