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On 6/22/2011 5:33, Francois Labreque wrote:
> You know that's a euphemism, right?
Spend some time with a chinese person and you'll realize *everything* in
English is a euphamism.
--
Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
"Coding without comments is like
driving without turn signals."
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Invisible <voi### [at] dev null> wrote:
> For some reason, it really *really* annoys me when people write "i.e."
> when they /obviously/ meant "e.g."
> Apparently some people think these mean the same thing.
Am I only imagining things, or is consistently mixing up "your" and
"you're" more popular today than it was eg. 10 years ago? (The error seems
to happen almost equally in both ways, unlike with "it's" vs. "its", where
it happens almost exclusively on one way.)
--
- Warp
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On 22/06/2011 05:02 PM, Darren New wrote:
> On 6/22/2011 2:57, Invisible wrote:
>> For some reason, it really *really* annoys me when people write "i.e."
>> when
>> they /obviously/ meant "e.g."
>
> It bugs me that one of my bosses would write "qv" when he meant "q.v.",
> and wouldn't let me change it because then he'd have to fix it
> everywhere in his docs.
I've never heard that one before. Now I have to go look that up...
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On 22-6-2011 11:57, Invisible wrote:
> For some reason, it really *really* annoys me when people write "i.e."
> when they /obviously/ meant "e.g."
>
> Apparently some people think these mean the same thing.
One day we sent in a paper to a journal and used a latin expression
(mutatis mutandis) that is commonly used in the Netherlands, but perhaps
not elsewhere, and we didn't realize that.
We got a reviewer that remarked about that that we were deliberately
'obfuscating' things and that we should never use latin expressions in
scientific papers. I forgot the exact wording but in telling us so, he
used both e.g. and i.e. Very funny.
Googling 'e.g.' will give a a page explaining the difference between the
two abbreviations as the first hit and for 'i.e.' it is the 4th after
some internet explorer hits. Apparently it is an issue. Can someone
explain why?
BTW: if other pages turn up first for you:
http://www.ted.com/talks/eli_pariser_beware_online_filter_bubbles.html
--
Apparently you can afford your own dictator for less than 10 cents per
citizen per day.
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On 22-6-2011 18:03, Darren New wrote:
> On 6/22/2011 5:33, Francois Labreque wrote:
>> You know that's a euphemism, right?
>
> Spend some time with a chinese person and you'll realize *everything* in
> English is a euphamism.
like e.g. 'spend time', 'chinese person', and even 'English'?
--
Apparently you can afford your own dictator for less than 10 cents per
citizen per day.
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Am 28.06.2011 23:27, schrieb andrel:
> Googling 'e.g.' will give a a page explaining the difference between the
> two abbreviations as the first hit and for 'i.e.' it is the 4th after
> some internet explorer hits. Apparently it is an issue. Can someone
> explain why?
Because people aren't taught what latin words those abbreviations stand
for, and/or what those latin words mean?
I could imagine people thinking that "i.e." was an abbreviation of "in
example" or some such.
I bet part of the problem is that those abbreviations are commonly
spoken as the two letters, rather than the original words (compare "etc").
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