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> I wonder if the author would be open to making e.g. the car data available? Interesting - this is same incorrect use of e.g. that the author made in a couple
by scoot 5y ago
> I wonder if the author would be open to making e.g. the car data available?
Interesting - this is same incorrect use of e.g. that the author made in a couple of places. Contrary to (apparently popular) belief, "i.e." and "e.g." can't simply be used as direct replacements for their English equivalents.
"e.g." is used to introduce one or more examples that satisfy a previously provided general form, for example:
I prefer fruit, e.g. apples or pears, over vegetables. Apples and pears being examples of fruit, not that an example is needed in this case, but for the sake of simplicity.
In the former example, "the car data" is not an example of "making".
"i.e." follows a similar rule. If there are exceptions for either, I'd be interested to know of them.
- MauranKilom 5y agoInteresting, thanks for bringing this to my attention! Do you have any reference that explains this rule? I noticed on Wikipedia that introducing multiple examples used to actually have a different abbreviation (ee.g. or ee.gg.), so clearly something is already lost in translation here... In any case, what I wrote is really just a shorthand for more cumbersome formulations (like "...open to making your data, e.g. the car [data], available?" - that would hopefully be correct?), and reducing text is the whole point of using an abbreviation in the first place. But I'm open to striving for more consistent usage, so if you can refer me to some kind of authority on how to mix Latin abbreviations with English text, I'd be curious about it!