Bug#230751: dpkg: Missing . in man page of md5sum

[Josip Rodin <joy@srce.hr>]

On Thu, Feb 05, 2004 at 10:48:00AM +0100, Helge Kreutzmann wrote:
> > > Lankester et al               29th November 1995 MD5SUM(1)
> > > 
> > > It has to be "et al." (with a dot), because et is latin for and, and
> > > al. is the latin abbreviation for others.
> > 
> > WordNet explicitely accepts both with and without the period, and
> > Merriam-Webster doesn't even mention the period...
> 
> But you can see there, that it is clearly an abbreviation, so why
> should a dot be missing?

I'm just saying that the bug is _very_ minor, if that.

> Why I don't want to discredit Merriam-Websters, why should there be
> *no* "." behind al?

That's English for you, various things get allowed. I'm still trying to
recover from Ha_p_sburg ;)

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