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They know, hence why they used e.g., i.e. exempli gratia
by satvikpendem 10mo ago
They know, hence why they used e.g., i.e. exempli gratia
- woodruffw 10mo agoI don't think that's really clear. I think we could both defer to the OP clarifying. For pedantry's sake: neither i.e. nor e.g. would be correct here. You want cf. ("conferatur") to invite a comparison; e.g. is when an example pertains to an instance. In this case uv would not pertain to the instance, because Astro is not Astral.
- 0xFF0123 10mo agocf. would invite a fair bit of confusion on an article about cloudflare
- woodruffw 10mo agoI agree! That's why I think it's probably just a confusion between entities. It doesn't make sense either as example or as a comparison (although IMO it makes more sense as the latter). (For the OP: I'm sorry if I misinterpreted you.)
- arjie 10mo agoIt's all good. Hardly matters. It was just becoming too big a discussion for something far too minor. Any frustration I had from being misunderstood (primarily self-directed) was alleviated from satvikpendem guessing correctly what I intended.
- rdiddly 10mo ago"e.g." IS correct because uv is an example or instance of a dev tool.
- scoot 10mo ago"e.g." isn't used correctly here. It's intended use is as a connector linking a clause to examples supporting that clause. You can't simply substitute "for example" with "e.g." anywhere in a sentence and expect it to function correctly. Regardless, these Latin abbreviations best avoided entirely due to the surprising number of readers who don't understand them.
- 725686 10mo agoFor the perplex: e.g. is latin for "exempli gratia" = for example i.e. is latin for "id est" = that is
- huhkerrf 10mo agoA good way to remember it is to use a backronym: e.g. - example given i.e. - in effect
- programjames 10mo agoi.e. - in eother (words)
- istjohn 10mo agoin explanation
- spondyl 10mo agoAs someone who was perplexed, I've only heard perplex used in past tense (I was perplexed) so seeing "For the perplex" just made me confused as to what "perplex" meant and I had to do a further search to decipher this tree of comments haha
- 725686 10mo agoHa, ha, sorry. English is not my native language.
- thayne 10mo agoI'm not sure. I wouldn't generally call Astro a "dev tool". It's more of a framework. It's possible you are right, but it isn't clear from the content of the comment.
- Jenk 10mo agoFrameworks are a category of development tool. Things that developers utilitise to be productive.