svn commit: r352513 - head/usr.sbin/freebsd-update

[Ian Lepore]

On Thu, 2019-09-19 at 11:34 +0000, Ed Maste wrote:
> Author: emaste
> Date: Thu Sep 19 11:34:35 2019
> New Revision: 352513
> URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/352513
> 
> Log:
>   freebsd-update.8: appease igor
>   
>   igor follows American style guides in the belief that abbreviations i.e.
>   and e.g. are always followed by a comma.  Make that change now so that
>   future updates to freebsd-update.8 do not complain about this.
>   
> 

Grammatically, English requires a comma after 'i.e.' because it is an
adverbial phrase functioning as a conjunctive adverb.

If you translate 'e.g.' idiomatically as "for example", then it is also
a conjunctive adverbial phrase requiring a comma.

-- Ian