On 10-Nov-08 15:31, Invisible wrote:

> 
> - People who write "i.e." when they actually mean "e.g."

Reminds me of a comment in a peer review process: "Latin, i.e. 'Mutatis 
mutandis' may not be understood by all. A goal of all published works 
should be clarity. This is obfuscation."

We didn't realize that "mutatis mutandis" is perfectly good Dutch but 
possibly not used by everyone, so he had a point. Yet, using a sentence 
containing i.e. to explain that had me rolling on the floor. And 
"obfuscation" had the poor first author running towards his dictionary.
I keep this one in my collection of self contradicting expressions.

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