"Duncan Heenan" wrote in message
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"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?)


Now you see what has happened Duncan :-).
The big danger of posting grammatical or spelling corrections on usenet is
that everyone will scour every post by you to look for your own mistakes.
Ultimately, even the most literate among us will get something wrong sooner
or later.
My personal pet hates are incorrect uses of plurals/singulars for data,
bacteria etc. or
incorrect use of the word literally as in "... I literally jumped out of my
skin". I think it is a sign of reaching 45 or so.

Des