diff --git a/.vale.ini b/.vale.ini
index e7657b17a3..415518a3cb 100644
--- a/.vale.ini
+++ b/.vale.ini
@@ -1,30 +1,31 @@
 StylesPath = .vale/styles
 MinAlertLevel = suggestion
 Vocab = Terms
 
 [asciidoctor]
 # enable
 experimental = YES
 
 # assign a specific value
 attribute-missing = drop
 
 [*.adoc]
 BasedOnStyles = FreeBSD, Vale
 BlockIgnores = (?s) *(\[\.programlisting\]\n\.{4}.*?\.{4})
 
 [{documentation,website}/content/{bn-bd,da,de,el,es,fr,hu,id,it,ja,ko,mn,nl,pl,pt-br,ru,tr,zh-cn,zh-tw}/**/*.adoc]
 BasedOnStyles = FreeBSD, Vale
 FreeBSD.BrandTerms = NO
 FreeBSD.ConsciousLanguage = NO
 FreeBSD.Contractions = NO
+FreeBSD.ForeignLanguage= NO
 FreeBSD.Hang = NO
 FreeBSD.Hyphens = NO
 FreeBSD.Pronouns = NO
 FreeBSD.SuperfluousOptArgInLinks = NO
 FreeBSD.SemanticLineBreak = NO
 FreeBSD.Spacing = NO
 Vale.Avoid= NO
 Vale.Repetition = NO
 Vale.Spelling = NO
 Vale.Terms= NO
diff --git a/.vale/styles/FreeBSD/ForeignLanguage.yml b/.vale/styles/FreeBSD/ForeignLanguage.yml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..c2e5985fb5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.vale/styles/FreeBSD/ForeignLanguage.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+---
+extends: substitution
+message: "Use '%s' instead of '%s'."
+ignorecase: true
+level: error
+nonword: true
+action:
+  name: replace
+  swap:
+    '\b(?:eg|e g|e\.g\.|e\. g\.)[\s,]': for example
+    '\b(?:ie|i e|i\.e\.|i\. e\.)[\s,]': that is