Will Thompson on Nostr: Do native English speakers who did not study Latin at school know what “et al.” ...
Do native English speakers who did not study Latin at school know what “et al.” means?
Specifically, is listing an app's developer as “Jane Bloggs, et al.” fine or pretentious/incomprehensible nonsense?
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