Comment by scoot

7 months ago

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

Looks right to me. Are you referring to the capitalization?

  • Yes, breaking a single sentence in two, hence beginning a sentence with "E.g.". At least stylistically if not grammatically incorrect.

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.