I can say I learne something today. Thanks. Great clip! Plus, eg are my initials  I'm finding a lot of spelling mistakes on this site by me and others,I used to think I knew how to spell until I started typing so much.eg: on a clip I saw 'world piece or going to pieces'. Thank you for the clarification and reminder. Definitely a good clip. Tidbit - I am glad you brought something up. Yesterday I clipped something about "Television Godd For...blah, blah.." Right after I hit "save", I caught the spelling error! Only then did I realize there was an "edit" button right in front of me all along! So I promptly changed it to "..Good For Third World Women". There is no edit button for "add a comment". Once you "post" it's "out there. Clippers are truly an International Community of information seekers for various reasons (e.g, humor, politics, social injustice, science). We have various education levels. Some of us even have ... I'm full of bruises from kicking myself for all my typing errors, when I re-read some of my comments... and to think there is a preview button... but who has time for previews when you have a point to make just before shooting through the door to get to work? Besides, I uaually can't wait to see what else my clippers have considered worth clipping.... Please will fellow clipmarkers forgive me.... You're forgiven. And now for the difference between "that" and "which"....  wow, just this thursday i was thinking of the difference between i.e. and e.g. while taking notes in chemistry... thanks for this clip! I've been using i.e. wrong all these years! that was educational ! guilty! or should i say...i am innocent! I was thinking egoldstein and internet explorer Silly me Nice info I thought i.e. meant in example. I had no idea what e.g meant. Great clip. I was taught that e.g. meant for example and i.e. meant in other words. Great clip Tommolo, thanks for that. Great clip. I love it when they're informative. Everyone who writes can now know and have an easy way to remember the difference [ie, eg means example given]. OK, now explain the difference between "its" and "it's." And once we get that, "induction" and "deduction." A burrow is a hole in the ground, a burro is a beast of burden. Any good editor should know the difference. Peace, j awesome! I'm clipping this! Knead and need and kneed i like to use "example given" for eg., and "in essence" for ie. yeah...i just made that up...and my spelling is pretty much perfect all the time but my grammar sucks. i dont use capitals or punctuation much. too lazy. it's = short form for "it is"..."It's fun to laugh"...or "It is fun to laugh." its = "This sock belongs with its mate." You wouldn't us "it's" in that sentence because you would not say "This sock belongs with "it is" mate." I don't know if POWEROF2 was seriously asking the difference between "its" and "it's"...I just wanted to give a reply so I could exercise my brain to see if I could really explain the difference. I think I did ok. whops late <.< by the way clipped both the "its/it's" and the "that/which" issues. The distinction in logical methods is the key concern: induction is reasoning from particular cases and instances to a general conclusion; deductioncan't tell about "Knead/kneed" issue, sorry  learn a lesson OK, now explain the difference between "its" and "it's." And once we get that, "induction" and "deduction."its means "belonging to it". it's means "it is". induction and deduction are opposites. deduction means getting specific information from general facts. induction is the reverse. whoops, just noticed others already said that! I always try to just type the whole phrase, exempli gratia or id est. Some people think its pompus to use so much latin, but honestly, I couldn't keep the acronyms straight. As y'all may have noticed, even if I suck at spelling, I try to be conscientious with my words... Now I rely entirely on firefox's spell-checker utility. Any further complaints may be directed to http://hendrix.mozilla.org/ thanx I learned something today 2 , it may seem useless for some ppl but is nice to know this kind of stuff. with meails and text/sms English grammar has gone for a toss. Nice and refreshing to find a discussion on some nuances of English language - grammar and usage - here. tnx 4 the clip! Ooops! there I go! Any further complaints may be directed to http://hendrix.mozilla.org/Good one! ie and eg? You've gotta be joking...It's sad that basic rules of grammar (its vs it's, your vs you're) that should've been understood by the time you got to highschool need re-explaining in adulthood. Doesn't anyone read any more? Doesn't anyone read any more?Not enough. In response to NS-Clips... Allow me to posit a counterpoint. I believe that e-mail has saved the art of letter writing, the English language and perhaps civilization. I was born in the 1980s, and by that time many feared that written expression was being abandoned by the average American, since telephones had largely eliminated the need for daily correspondence. This, however, has changed completely with the arrival of the internet. Suddenly, instant-messaging email, text-messaging, blogging, chat boards, and even Clipmarks have leapt to the forefront of communication technology, all of which are written media. Not just writers, but everyone living and working in society today will most li... Perhaps antiquated and esoteric terms such as e.g. and i.e. will find themselves redefined at the hands of the greater populous, which lacks a Latin education, but who is to say that this trend is bad? I see it as a refreshing of the language, a clearing out of stuffy old institutions that congest our verbiage with superfluous and extraneous pedantic flourishes. ;-P But how will it save our civilization? Globalism. The thing which continues to amaze me about digital communications is the extent to which it has united the world. Previously we were divided not only by languages, but also by boarders, mountains, oceans, vast insurmountable stretches of barren distance. No longer. Look at the o... |
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