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> chimps f.x. Just a small note, that abbreviation seems extremely rare to me. You might have better readability by saying "e.g." which means the same thing, o
by silicon2401 4y ago
> chimps f.x.
Just a small note, that abbreviation seems extremely rare to me. You might have better readability by saying "e.g." which means the same thing, or just writing it out. It took me a while to figure out whether you were referring some body part belonging to chimps or something
- moffkalast 4y agochimps: f(x) = y^2
- pinkmuffinere 4y agoWow even after reading the above comment I still can't confidently piece together what "chimps f.x." means. Is it "chimps for example"?
- 2-718-281-828 4y agoseriously? I speak internally while writing and "for example" feels more fluent than "exempli gratia". that's why I prefer fx. I'm not a native speaker, though
- silicon2401 4y agoIf you know what e.g. stands for, you don't need to expand it. Native speakers just say "e.g.", as in, "ee gee". If you don't know what "fx" stands for then how would you expand it? It's not a common abbreviation at all
- MaKey 4y agoI'd suggest sticking to "e. g." as well. I'm also not a native speaker and have never seen the abbreviation "f. x." before so I couldn't figure out its meaning.
- kernelbugs 4y agoAnother native speaker chiming in. This is my first time encountering f.x. and it took me quite a while to figure out (essentially guess) what it meant. Most people I know and situations I've encountered use e.g. (possibly without even knowing what it means). In common usage e.g. is "for example" just like etc. means "and additional things" or i.e. means "that is".
- gknoy 4y agoI wish I could write or speak another language anywhere close to as well as you do English. You're right! I certainly don't think of the words "exempli gratia" -- I literally think the letters "e g" as a mental shorthand for "for example". I often find myself writing "e.g." first, and then expanding it to "for example" when re-reading what I wrote. Sorry. English is weird. "f.x." seems like it should be a preferable abbreviation for "for example", but it just isn't idiomatic. I figured out that was what you meant when reading it, but it definitely stood out in much the same level of wrongness as seeing code that isn't formatted correctly or that uses a non-idiomatic way of doing things (list comprehensions in Python).
- Cthulhu_ 4y agoI always thought e.g. meant "example given"; there's also "i.e." which I presumed meant "in example". anyway, "for example" takes two seconds to type (if that), if abbreviations cause confusion (in general, in any situation, especially professionally), avoid them. Anyway I'll brb, I got an I&A meeting for our SAFe procedure, gotta get our CI's and DoD in order and make sure we execute LCM properly. No I don't know what any of these abbreviations mean, but this is the situation we find ourselves in, lmao
- mgdlbp 4y agoFWIW the abbreviations listed in Wiktionary are f.e. and f.ex.
- belfalas 4y agoDepends on where in the world you hail from originally. I have also seek "fks" to mean the same thing. More common with non-native English speakers.
- silicon2401 4y agoIt's probably a feature of non-western English varieties. I've never seen "fks" used to mean "for example" and would never imagine that that's what it stands for.