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>I have always been rather fond of both of them, as they are short and to
>the point. However, (sadly) in this day and age, fewer and fewer people
>know what they mean, so I am instead using "that is" or "in other words"
>and "for example".
I certainly didn't stop using them because of some notion that people are
stupider than they used to be. I've never run across anybody who couldn't
get the meaning of a sentence simply because it used "i.e." instead of
"that is."
I stopped using "i.e." and "e.g." (and "etc.") because the use of Latin
abbreviations is less clear and more pretentious than using simple
English/American phrases. In a computer manual that's likely to contain
words and phrases, not to mention concepts, unfamiliar to the reader, any
added clarity helps.
----->Mike
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