Timeline for Using i.e. in parentheses
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| Dec 5, 2013 at 22:18 | answer | added | Tony May | timeline score: 1 | |
| Feb 10, 2011 at 4:44 | answer | added | Alex Trueman | timeline score: 0 | |
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| Dec 31, 2010 at 2:40 | comment | added | Cerberus - Reinstate Monica | @Suvrit: If you mean to say that dashes would be better than commas in my first example, then I must agree. I was just trying to show how brackets are not always the best choice with "i.e.". I don't think that commas would be inappropriate, though: do you? | |
| Dec 31, 2010 at 2:36 | comment | added | Cerberus - Reinstate Monica | @kalaracey: 1. You are right about the meaning of the acronyms: "e.g." stands for "exempli gratia", meaning "for [the sake of] example"; "i.e." stands for "id est", meaning "that is". // 2. In my sentence, "multinationals" was not intended as an example of modern trusts, but as THE incarnation of trusts in our time; so it was a clarification, not an example. Perhaps it could be an example in another context. | |
| Dec 30, 2010 at 23:26 | answer | added | dmckee --- ex-moderator kitten | timeline score: 1 | |
| Dec 30, 2010 at 20:19 | comment | added | Suvrit | Do you think an example that suggests using em-dashes (i.e., dashes that look like ---) appropriate as an illustration? | |
| Dec 30, 2010 at 19:26 | comment | added | Kyle L | Cerberus, in your example "we must be tougher on the trusts of our day (i.e. multinationals) because..." wouldn't "e.g. (examplus gratus, good example) be more suitable than i.e. (illuc est, that is)? I thought that i.e. was used more for clarification ("i.e.", when you say something, and then wish to refine it, as I did here). | |
| Dec 30, 2010 at 17:41 | answer | added | Brian Hooper | timeline score: 3 | |
| Dec 30, 2010 at 16:00 | comment | added | Cerberus - Reinstate Monica | Could you perhaps give an example? Do you mean something like "we must be tougher on the trusts of our day (i.e. multinationals) because ..."? I'd say it is not impossible, but usually you would not use "i.e." for an explanation with so little focus as one that would go between brackets. In my example, commas would have been better, because the explanation is important/salient enough. In other examples, when the explanation is meant to be a very short reminder of something explained earlier, brackets without "i.e." would be enough, as in "the writer of the article (Jones) disappoints me ...". | |
| Dec 30, 2010 at 15:54 | history | asked | Cynthia Pryor | CC BY-SA 2.5 |