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brewmarche
27 days ago
Your comment put me on a side quest to research the differences between i.e., e.g., viz. and sc. and I have to admit that I’m still not 100% sure
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chrismorgan
26 days ago
Don’t think I’ve ever heard of
scilicet
. <
https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=viz.,sc.&year_...
> definitely suggests
viz.
to have been massively more popular than
sc.
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HappMacDonald
26 days ago
Concordantly, vis a vis, ergo..
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NooneAtAll3
26 days ago
i.e. == aka == in other words
e.g. == f.e., for example
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giantrobot
26 days ago
"e.g." == exempli gratia == to give an example
"i.e." == id es == that is
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jcynix
26 days ago
But both i.e. and e.g. might be more easily understood by non-native speakers of English (IMHO ;-)
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