et sq.

17:55 Jan 10, 2011 

I guess the KudoZ is the place to go to find other lovers of language and fine linguistic points. It warms my heart to see that many people find Latin interesting.
@Nikki It's a shame you couldn't study Latin when you wanted. Take heart, it's never too late!

17:27 Jan 10, 2011 

You are not alone. There used to be a time when folks would gaily talk about something being a bit of a 'non sequitur'. I never did Latin, had wanted to, but there were only two of us who did. The course was not run. I had run into it, (Latin, not the course), through music and law. It's all over the place. Studying Latin is on my list of things to do when I retire...among with other things!

07:58 Jan 10, 2011 

Ha ha, Phil, you are so right: I think three out of my last six questions on here have been due to typos, so I should clearly be more suspicious of any words or phrases I can't figure out!!

22:06 Jan 9, 2011 

In a way, it is irrelevant whether et. sq. is a typo for seq. or whether it stands for "sequiturque". What counts is that those of us who want to keep learning langauges, have had the benefit of a very intelligent and stimulating discussion. We are all richer as a result of it.

21:53 Jan 9, 2011 

you can say "et seq" and "sq" but not "et sq". So yes, I suppose you could say it was a typo.

21:49 Jan 9, 2011 

No one so far has used the word "typo", but I'm sure that's what it is.

20:19 Jan 9, 2011 

Yes, you are in the company here of others who find this stuff fascinating.

20:18 Jan 9, 2011 

Thank you guys for your support. It's good to know that I am not a freak because I care about this sort of things... or at least, not the only one ;-)

20:11 Jan 9, 2011 

how seq. changed to sq. Thank you.

20:07 Jan 9, 2011 

On se couchera moins bêtes ce soir. Bonne année.

20:00 Jan 9, 2011 

Once a Latin teacher, always a Latin teacher, so here I go, making annoying and, in this instance, completely pointless distinctions:
sq is the abreviation of sequiturque "and what follows" so 1) it could refer to one or several following pages 2) the "et" meaning "and" just before sq. is redundant.
Seq. is the abreviation of "sequens" meaning "following" singular and sometimes of "sequentes" (plural of "sequens") which is (correctly or not depending on the sources) frequently abreviated in "seqq".
Yeah, I know, you don't really care ;-)

15:29 Jan 9, 2011 

This has come up before, but with the more usual spelling seq.