Hi, Ardith Hinton! -> Alexander Koryagin
I read your message from 30.06.2021 23:58

 AK>> It's shame for me that I am so lazy and don't ask you for more.

 AH> Your usual pace is about right for me. I often wish I could answer
 AH> more messages, but there are only so many hours in a day.: - Q

Probably I could ask more if were a retiree. But it will not be soon. Putin doesn't have money to pay pensions, and he decided to rise the retirement age. ;-)



 AH> While many sources regard "period" & "full stop" as synonymous,
 AH> BTW, my inclination is to think of a period as a punctuation mark
 AH> (.) which is used in various ways but may be called a "full stop"
 AH> at the end of a sentence. I'm very careful to make such
 AH> distinctions in my own writing. However, it seems I am often
 AH> overruled because double spacing isn't allowed in programming
 AH> jargon. While it try to make my writing understandable to my
 AH> audience, I am constantly thwarted by programmers who believe they
 AH> can make it more efficient... (sigh).

 AH>> (While I've seen no evidence of it myself I imagine some folks
 AH>> might argue that because the periods are often left out of various
 AH>> other abbreviations nowadays they can leave out the period
 AH>> with "etc." too. And not evverybody agrees about how to handle end
 AH>> punctuation in various cases).

In the Russian language we have the rule that no additional full stop is put at the end of the sentence where the last word is a shorten word with a period.
But if you see logical and correct "etc.?" then "etc.." is also logical. But I am sure everybody throws the last full stop away.

Bye, Ardith!
Alexander Koryagin
english_tutor 2021

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