use e.g. instead of i.e. #11205
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I think we need to be careful and not blindly replace all occurrences of "i.e." with "e.g." as they have different meanings. "e.g." is kind of equivalent to "for example" which is probably not meant here.
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I've read this article (https://www.grammarly.com/blog/know-your-latin-i-e-vs-e-g/) and the summary is:
So Christian is right! |
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Thank you for your feedback, and to be honest I didn’t know this. |
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Refs #11078 (comment)
Before this change there were ~550 occurences of
e.g.and only ~150 occurences ofi.e.in the docs.@javiereguiluz told me (and his feeling seems to be correct), that
e.g.is used most of the time.This PR brings consistency about this.