etc

Etc is the abbreviation of the Latin phrase, Et cetera. Et means ‘and.’ Cetera means ‘the rest.’ It is used at the end of a list to indicate that further, similar items are included. It also indicates that a list is too tedious or clichéd to give in full.

So often, so many of us go on and on. We have the choice to trim our talk, our presentation. When we use ‘etc’ we refrain from the unnecessary, the obvious and the tedious. ‘Etc’ says it so well that ‘the list goes on’.

At most formal functions, introductions of the speakers are long winded as all needless details are listed by the speaker when he passes his bio-data. It is enough to state the highest qualification, latest position and the most significant achievement.

But we stray from brevity. Think of bull’s eye. We have to focus on the central goal. The periphery is distracting and disturbs our aim. Let’s edit the pointless and get only to the real point of impact.

Let’s choose to keep it in brevity dye

Et cetera is about impact bull’s eye!

- Pravin K Sabnis