{"id":441,"date":"2008-07-08T08:16:15","date_gmt":"2008-07-08T08:16:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress\/?p=441"},"modified":"2008-07-08T08:16:15","modified_gmt":"2008-07-08T08:16:15","slug":"egversusie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/egversusie\/","title":{"rendered":"e.g. versus i.e."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been doing a lot of editing documents lately and it has come to my attention that I never knew the difference between i.e. and e.g., and have therefore used them interchangeably.  That&#8217;s probably not a great idea now that I&#8217;m writing for a wider audience than my friends who read this blog so I looked it up.  Here&#8217;s what I found.<br \/>\n&#8220;I.e.&#8221; stands for the Latin phrase &#8216;id est&#8217; or _that is_. &#8220;I.e.&#8221; is used in place of &#8220;in other words,&#8221; or &#8220;it\/that is.&#8221; One uses i.e. when one wants to specify a previous point or re-phrase something to catch a different nuance of meaning.<br \/>\n&#8220;E.g.&#8221; is also Latin, though it stands for &#8216;exempli gratia&#8217;, which translates as _for the sake of an example._  One uses e.g. when an example is needed, but one wants to imply that the examples given are just some of the many possible examples.<br \/>\nSome examples:<br \/>\n* Her heart sunk as the ship disappeared into the water; i.e., she was devastated. _from_ &#8220;_WiseGeek.com_&#8221;:<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wisegeek.com\/what-is-the-difference-between-ie-and-eg.htm\">http:\/\/www.wisegeek.com\/what-is-the-difference-between-ie-and-eg.htm<\/a><br \/>\n* I like citrus fruits (e.g., oranges and lemons). _from_ &#8220;_Daily Writing Tips_&#8221;:<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailywritingtips.com\/the-difference-between-eg-and-ie\/\">http:\/\/www.dailywritingtips.com\/the-difference-between-eg-and-ie\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been doing a lot of editing documents lately and it has come to my attention that I never knew the difference between i.e. and e.g., and have therefore used them interchangeably. That&#8217;s probably not a great idea now that I&#8217;m writing for a wider audience than my friends who read this blog so I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}