(--Johnny Carson, old-school 'Late Night')
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I've LONG wondered/"NOT known" the DIFFERENCE in usage between
"i.e."
&
"e.g."
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I.E. (Id Est)
Sample sentence
I'm going to the place where I work best, i.e., the coffee shop.
Explanation
[There is only one place that I am claiming is best for my work. By using "i.e.", I am telling you I am about to specify it.]
E.G. (Exempli Gratia)
Sample sentence
At the places where I work well, e.g., Starbucks, I have none of the distractions I have at home.
Explanation
[There are lots of coffee shops I like, but Starbucks is the only international one, so it's the only "example" that would work.]
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The abbreviation e.g. can be used with more than one example, but don't end your multiple examples with "etc." Don't say:I like coffee shops, e.g., Starbucks, Seattle's Best, etc.Do say There is debate as to whether some of the Julio-Claudian emperors (e.g., Tiberius and Nero) were evil.
Example 2. Helen and Her Siblings:
I.E. (Id Est)
The most beautiful human in Greek mythology, i.e., Leda's daughter Helen, may have had a unibrow, according to a 2009 book on Helen I'm reading.
[Helen, whose beauty launched the Trojan War, is considered the most beautiful woman from Greek mythology. There is no contender.]
E.G. (Exempli Gratia)
The children of Leda, e.g., Castor and Pollux, were born in pairs.
[The pair of boys, who are named Castor and Pollux, might be called twins, but it's not so clear about another set of Leda's offspring. Helen was said to have been hatched from an egg; Clytemnestra, born. Despite this distinction in manner of birth, Leda gestated/brooded multiple "pairs" of children, so Castor and Pollux are an example.]
(-- http://ancienthistory.about.com/od/abbreviations/f/ievseg.htm )
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(I'm SHRUGGING my shoulders.)
I took FOUR YEARS of SPANISH in high school. So, what do I know about … LATIN?!
(ANSWER: A LOT, thanks to Latin's being the "ROOT"/"BASE" of MOST medical-terms AND my bachelor's degree in "BioMEDICAL Engineering")
Seeing as 'comprendo espan(tilde)ol y NO Latino'', I'll "dumb it down" … 'para ME'!
(I SHALL remember the DIFFERENCE using MY OWN little "tool":
"I.E." = "Individual Example"
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“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity;
and I'm not sure about the universe.”
― Albert Einstein
(… From my experience with TOO MANY "ignoramuses", I'm
gonna HAFTA concur.)
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I am most certainly NOT trying to seem "STILTED",
EGOTISTICAL or CONDESCENDING. I am MERELY
stating FACTS.
((… "E.g." Since I have become rather CURT, I tend to
OBSERVE people's TENDENCIES more. ALSO, my
"ASTOUNDING audible-pickup"/"SUPERSONIC HEARING"
(--my OBSERVANT mom) has helped "BLESS me" with an
EXTRAORDINARY ability to DETECT, PROCESS &
EVALUATE … MANY people's TENDENCY to "tilt/lean the
scale" MORE toward the IGNORANT/STUPID/FOOLISH
side RATHER THAN toward the
WISE/INTELLIGENT/LOGICAL end.))
(… Aaawww, "SHITBALLZ"! I guess I've
UNKNOWINGLY/UNINTENTIONALLY/SUBCONSCIOUSLY
become A BIT of a "JUDGER".)
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So, I'm VERY UN-aware/UN-knowing of how MANY people
THINK/"COMPREHEND & INTERPRET situations".
((… "NEW 'shit' has come to LIGHT."(--The DUDE, 'The Big
Lebowski'))
… I'm VERY DISAPPOINTED that I caN'T "READ" …
people as WELL as I once THOUGHT.
(… Did ANYONE recognize that THAT was just an "elliptical
clause"?!)
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(Regarding my "RECOVERY"/"REHABILITATION" from my
injurIES:)
"This is a very … COMPLICATED-case … with ALOTTA
'INS', ALOTTA 'OUTS' to keep in ol' 'DUDER''s head."
(--The DUDE, 'The Big Lebowski')
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"Ya know: People FORGET that … the BRAIN … is the
body's BIGGEST erogenous-zone."
(--Jackie Treehorn)
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"On YOU, maybe."
(--The DUDE)
(--back-N-forth in 'The Big Lebowski')
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I was "under the--BIASED--impression" that "Istanbul,
TURKEY" was the ONLY--RECOGNIZED--city--in the
ENTIRE WORLD--that's SIMULTANEOUSLY in TWO
continents.
(Istanbul is in both Europe AND Asia.)
(… I have BEEN TO the "cross-over location" IN Istanbul--
BETWEEN 'Europa' & Asia.)
APPARENTLY though, there are three OTHER
"transcontinental" cities:
-- Atyrau, Kazakhstan (Europe/Asia)
-- Orenburg, Russia (Europe/Asia)
-- Suez, Egypt (Africa/Asia).
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