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By Dr. Les Terse

 

 

i.e.: Down the road from Underbelly, Texas, home of the Institute for the Linguistically Impaired, lies Los Libidos. There, many of the faculty at Bedspring Tech suffer from an odd strain of William F. Buckley Syndrome.

In casual conversation, they say the letters i.e. and e.g. Not only that, but they sometimes confuse one for the other.

I.e. stands for Latin words that mean that is or in other words; e.g., for for example. These abbreviations belong in dense, scholarly works written for maximum obfuscation to impress other scholars, never in good writing.

Professor Pompous Fatuous Failem, poor man, uses i.e. and e.g. in his email and speech.

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