It really irks me when people swap “i.e.” and “e.g.”—i.e. stands for id est—“that is”, and indicates that exactly the items listed, and no others, are meant by the phrase that is being clarified, while e.g. stands for exempli gratia—“for the sake of example”, and indicates that the listed items are only a small number of examples of a larger set, and that many items have been omitted.
When I read, my brain always tries to apply the corresponding meaning when I come across i.e. and e.g., and it breaks my brain when the wrong symbol was used, which I find very annoying.
It really irks me when people swap “i.e.” and “e.g.”—i.e. stands for id est—“that is”, and indicates that exactly the items listed, and no others, are meant by the phrase that is being clarified, while e.g. stands for exempli gratia—“for the sake of example”, and indicates that the listed items are only a small number of examples of a larger set, and that many items have been omitted.
When I read, my brain always tries to apply the corresponding meaning when I come across i.e. and e.g., and it breaks my brain when the wrong symbol was used, which I find very annoying.