Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 2 Nov 2021 06:42:06 +0100 | From | Borislav Petkov <> | Subject | Re: [GIT PULL] x86/cpu for v5.16 |
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On Mon, Nov 01, 2021 at 03:44:46PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > "a.o."? Is that a common German shorthand, possibly anglicized?
Haha, exactly. :-)
> I'm assuming - and rewrote it - that it stands for "or similar".
Apparently, the "proper" thing to write is https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/i.a.
> Possibly "among other" aka "inter alia"? Very occasionally shortened > "i.a.", although "e.g." is the _much_ more common form of much the > same thing.
Yeah, I saw "e.g." being suggested also for "among others".
> Never seen that "a.o." thing.
Sorry about that - I'll make sure to avoid such misguided abbreviations in the future. We have enough confusion as it is - no reason for me to add more.
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