You've fairly well noted what they're for (though I'd have said "i.e." is for summaries or explication, rather than having covered all examples in a class).
Most people have their head in dark dank places where grammar is concerned. We love them anyway, and secretly correct their errors so that if someone who knows what they're talking about sees their writing, said reader has a chance to get the content without being blinded by the failures of form :-)
We are the Gnomes of Correction, and we rule by means of whiteout and the Delete key :-D
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Date: 2004-03-24 02:23 pm (UTC)"e.g." = "exempli gratis" (IIRC), literally, "free example"
You've fairly well noted what they're for (though I'd have said "i.e." is for summaries or explication, rather than having covered all examples in a class).
Most people have their head in dark dank places where grammar is concerned. We love them anyway, and secretly correct their errors so that if someone who knows what they're talking about sees their writing, said reader has a chance to get the content without being blinded by the failures of form :-)
We are the Gnomes of Correction, and we rule by means of whiteout and the Delete key :-D