"Mike Lyle" wrote in message
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Duncan Heenan wrote:
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There is nothing wrong with using "i.e." and "e.g." correctly, at
all. What will get people worked up is correcting the grammar or
spelling or punctuation in posts from other people.
It makes you sound like a grumpy schoolteacher. Usenet is just a
loud silly place full of all kinds of everything;
some of it occasionally correctly spelled and grammatically
correct.
Usually, however, anything goes.

Des

I admit to being a grumpy old git, but I'm not a school teacher.
However, I've usually been grateful for correction when I've been
wrong about something. That's how we learn. The confusing of i.e.
(id
est) for e.g. (exampla grantis) is one of the most common, and to
me
annoying, mistakes made in writing or speech.
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Well, in that case you won't mind my mentioning that it's "exempli
gratia"!

Mike (pédantique? moi?)

I stand corrected - and contrite! (assuming there is more than one example
quoted?)