fox: my left eye.  "ceci n'est pas une fox." (Default)
fox ([personal profile] fox) wrote2010-02-27 11:37 am

memo

to: world
from: fox
re: e.g. and i.e.

e.g. = exempli gratiā = for example.

i.e. = id est = that is.

If, to take one example, you have a Ph.D. and are senior to me on a team of linguists? You shouldn't need me to point this out to you. And yet.