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European crash tester says carmakers must bring back physical controls (arstechnica.com)
submitted 9 months ago by boem to c/technology
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[–] jpreston2005 13 points 9 months ago (1 children)

funnily enough, we already had an abbreviation for "IOW" (In Other Words), "I.E." (Id Est - That Is)

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Worth noting that, by convention, "i.e." is usually in lower case, and only capitalized when the words themselves would be, i.e. at the start of a sentence.

Edit: typo

[–] jpreston2005 3 points 9 months ago (2 children)

I THOUGHT it looked weird capitalized, but the other guy capitalized IOW so I figured "When In Rome"

[–] Trail 2 points 9 months ago

You mean w.i.r.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

i think ie looks weird no matter how you present it