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Contents 1 Last paragraph 2 Removed Discussion: CF 3 more examples 4 Interesting coincidence 5 Bold Cleanup 5.1 read aloud?

[edit] Last paragraph

Wow. That last paragraph is the single hardest to decipher bit of writing I've seen on wikipedia. I'd edit myself, but I'm not even really sure if it needs to be there. So I start the discussion...

Discuss!

[anonymous] 04:37, 30 November 2006 (UTC)

Agreed. I thought the example itself was good, but it went far afield from the subject at hand (the actual abbreviation cf.). Hopefully my rewrite removed the cruft while leaving the important part, but if anybody has any further improvements, they're welcome. —Ebarrett 23:14, 15 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Removed Discussion: CF

You are less than the normal CF value for deleting my message. I will say again, I am the CF Value and myself, along with Disbursy, are the key to reaching the Value of the utmost intensity, to run amuck with correctness. You are the lowest of the low, the abomination of the cf value, you must be, Jan Mueller.

Thank ewe, click-

[edit] more examples

this article definitely needs more examples... 69.113.7.9 02:07, 9 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Interesting coincidence

Isn't it appropriate that the link to the disambig page ("For other uses, see Cf") could be written as "For other uses, cf. Cf"? puzzleMeister 23:32, 15 January 2007 (UTC)

65.170.43.34CF65.170.43.34

Alright:

About a couple weeks after he started at Origen, Nick told Adam Russell and I about this nickname that he had gotten back in grade school. It was Nick Sabella “Cool Fella”. He also created a rhyme for it, which goes like so:

My name is Nick Sabella

I am a real Cool Fella

My girlfriend is Cinderella

I live in the Cella

Then it got shortened to CF (And a whole other story goes with CF) and then the “CF Values” started, which were pictures taken from Google that were altered to include Nick’s Origen picture on it, but the Origen picture included edited sunglasses and a gold chain using the Paint program. Numerous CF Values were created by multiple people and finally when I was ready to leave Origen, Nick created a slideshow with music that features main of those CF Values.

Is it clear now?

[edit] Bold Cleanup

I made a bunch of changes, for the following reasons:

• First, a general one... "compare" is very related to "contrast," and maybe one is a subset of the other or it's the same thing in a logic class. But the word "compare" does not itself mean contrast. As such, to write "cf" does not mean the understanding fo the pre-cf phrase can only be undrestood by contrasting it with the post-cf phrase. If I say "Feliz Cumpleaños is Spanish for Happy Birthday (cf. Cascabeles is Spanish for Jingle Bells)", that does not mean I wrote that to show how Jingle Bells is a different song than Happy Birthday--it's just bringing up another Spanish translation which would help one understand Feliz Cumpleaños. Sorry, small distinction, but throughout the article, authors said stuff like "it is often used by authors... to refer to other academic material which may contain an argument or statement differing to theirs." No, they are merely establishing a lens with the proper prescription.
• In binomial nomenclature, cf goes between the name of the species and the name of a similar species. So "Feliz Cumpleaños cf. Happy Birthday," meaning "The song they're singing is called Feliz Cumpleaños, and I think it may even be a Happy Birthday variation (and if you want to know what I mean, you should probably compare it to Happy Birthday.)" Again, the phrase is not necessarily saying that understanding comes through pointing out the differences, but the similarities, between the two songs. --Mrcolj 17:08, 9 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] read aloud?

how should this be read aloud? "Confer?" "See-eff?" "Compare (to/with)?" Jieagles 00:08, 4 September 2007 (UTC)