Comment by dmurray

3 days ago

I expect even quite literate native English speakers to sometimes make mistakes with subject-verb agreement in any form of sentence other than the most trivial.

E.g. I am not surprised to read "Distance to the server is one of the factors that affects latency."

And I'm not surprised to see "e.g." being used incorrectly. ;)

  • e.g. means "example given", it's being used correctly in this case; i.e. is a bit more subtle as it's Latin for "id est", which is more like a "that is to say..."

    Both would work in this case, but e.g. is not incorrect.

    • e.g. stands for the latin exemplī grātiā aka exempli gratia, which the literal translation is "for sake of example"

      id est is literally "that is". For something like "OP is a bakchod; that is, a tosser" -- replace that is with i.e.