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by teo_zero
674 days ago
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> while this (incorrect) use of "e.g." is a hill I will die on, even so, I struggle to explain why it's just plain wrong. Are there many such things you would die for without even knowing why? :) "Exempli gratia" translates quite literally to "for the sake of example". I see no grammatical reasons why you shouldn't use it as the GP used it. Are you sure you are not mistaking e.g. with i.e.? The latter stands for "id est" and means "that is", but the two are often confounded, and it's not unusual to find i.e. used to introduce an example. If the GP had used i.e., that would be a hill to die on. |
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I didn't say I don't know why. I said that finding good reference material to explain it is hard to find.
> Are you sure you are not mistaking e.g. with i.e.?
Yes, I'm sure. I'm surprise that if you know the difference, you don't know the correct usage.