Wed Oct 29, 2003, 10:39pm
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In Memoriam
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Join Date: Nov 1999
Location: Houghton, U.P., Michigan
Posts: 9,953
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Point of Order !
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Originally posted by ChuckElias
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Originally posted by mick
eg - exempli gratia (for example)
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My favorite use of "e.g." is in the movie Get Shorty where Ray Bones mistakenly uses "i.e." to mean "for example". Anybody else remember that scene in the barber shop? Hysterical. Really.
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Is the correct puncuation:
e.g. and i.e. or eg, and ie, ?
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