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Old Thu Dec 06, 2018, 12:25pm
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Originally Posted by BillyMac View Post
E.g. stands for exempli gratia in Latin, which means “for example.” It introduces one or more examples that illustrate something stated. In my opinion it doesn't refer to all examples.
I never understand why a different, more obvious/intuitive, abbreviation is not used. Why not use f.e. which means "for example"?

"All examples" - close to being an oxymoron
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