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Sentence #279118

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blay_paul blay_paul April 29, 2010 April 29, 2010 at 3:32:09 AM UTC link Permalink

Mr. vs Mr is, allegedly, a British / American English difference (I don't recall which is which). As such I don't think it needs to be 'fixed'.

JimBreen JimBreen April 29, 2010 April 29, 2010 at 3:47:51 AM UTC link Permalink

In my book "Mr." is wrong, and "Mr" is right. The point of the "." is to show a word has been truncated, e.g. "Prof.", "etc.". The French "M." is, of course, correct as it's a truncation.

If you want to work on some *real* English errors, go to the Lists menu and look at the list of sentences with dodgey English. Or look at the page I have at:
http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~..._comments.html

JimBreen JimBreen April 29, 2010 April 29, 2010 at 1:46:33 PM UTC link Permalink

I release them whenever I amend them. That way others can have a go. It's a pity we can't just tick them to say "it's OK".

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Mr Tanaka is not at his desk right now.

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Mr. Tanaka is not at his desk right now.

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Mr Tanaka is not at his desk right now.

edited by blay_paul, April 29, 2010