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A good place to get your "i.e's" and "e.g's" right you should get the podcast called "Grammer Girl's Quick and Dirty Tips for Better Writing."

Good stuff, yo!

I specifically remember learning that i.e. can also mean "in exemplum," which makes that usage of it identical to e.g. Anybody know of a debunking of that notion?

I feel smart again!

The mental trick I use is e.g. = "example given" and i.e. = "in essense." Not the latin translations, but they help me keep them straight.

That's pretty good, Matt!

This is one of the best Neatorama posts I've seen in a whlie (of course, I'm a language nerd).

For people, I use "et alia" (or "et al.") rather than "etc." It means "and others." I've never heard of "i.e." meaning "in exemplum," but a quick search via Google shows that this is a common (mis?)perception.

Reminds me of my favorite sequence from Get Shorty:

"Ray "Bones" Barboni: Let me explain something to you. Momo is dead. Which means that everything he had now belongs to Jimmy Cap, including you. Which also means, that when I speak, I speak for Jimmy. E.g., from now on, you start showing me the proper fucking respect.
Chili Palmer: "E.g." means "for example". What I think you want to say is "I.e.".
Ray "Bones" Barboni: Bullshit! That's short for "ergo".
Chili Palmer: Ask your man.
Bodyguard: To the best of my knowledge, "e.g." means "for example".
Ray "Bones" Barboni: E.g., i.e., fuck you! The point is this: is that, When I say "jump", you say "OK", okay?"

For the answer to this one, [i]vide infra[/i]

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Shabby! Not only is a commenter trying to pull a fast one (with a phony phrase, "in exemplum," for "i.e."), but also the main post has an error in each explanation of three additional abbreviations,
(1) "C.f." should be "Cf." -- without the extra period.
(2) "Etc." is not "the abbreviation for "etcetera" -- but rather the abbreviation for "et cetera" (with a space between the two Latin words).
(3) "QED" is not the "abbreviation for quod erat demonstradum" -- but rather the abbreviation for "quod erat demonstrandum" (with an "n" before the second "d."
Tsk, tsk!

English language is very hard language to learn yet we mixed them with some Latin abbreviation and everything just got mixed up.