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Only the horses can find us tonight

I'm letting my inner Grammar Nazi out again. Prepare yourselves. Also including definitions at no extra charge. 1. Don't get "etc." and "and so on" mixed up. "Etc." (short for "et cetera", Latin for "and the rest") is used to imply a continuing list of different items. For example, "They had all different kinds of fruits: apples, pears, peaches, plums, etc." This implies that there were other, different kinds of fruits there other than the ones that were already mentioned. "And so on", on the other hand, implies repetition; e.g. "The song 'Around the World' by Daft Punk has lyrics that go 'Around the world, around the world, around the world, around the world' and so on". This means that the lyrics repeat the phrase "around the world" over and over. And for the love of all deities, it's "etc.", not "and etc." "Et" means "and". &