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This tag is for questions about words or phrases that have multiple meanings and can thus be understood in different ways. If your question is about different words that can be easily mixed up or confused use the tag CONFUSABLES instead.
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Why does i.e mean that is?
It's Latin, not English.
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Latin_phrases_(I) where you can see that it's short for "id est".
By the way, the proper way to write abbreviations is with periods …
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