i.e. vs. e.g.

[Ceri Davies]

On Wed, Sep 08, 2004 at 06:27:13PM -0600, Warren Block wrote:
> On Wed, 8 Sep 2004, Ceri Davies wrote:
> 
> >Apologies in advance for coming over all schoolmaster like, but I've
> >noticed a few instances where I believe that people are confusing the
> >terms "i.e." and "e.g.", and so here's a little reminder/summary:
> >
> >	i.e. can be read as "that is to say".
> >
> >	e.g. can be read as "for example".
> 
> The FDP says to avoid contractions.  Maybe these should be avoided in 
> the same way.

I think that would be overkill, and if we stopped doing things that we
did wrong occasionally then there wouldn't be much of FreeBSD left ;-)

I was "just saying" really.

Ceri
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