Why do people intentionally misuse Latin abbreviations like i.e. and e.g?

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This is so tempting for me to do hahahaha

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davenn said:
This is so tempting for me to do hahahaha
Wait ... what? You've been ON your meds all this time?
 
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phinds said:
Wait ... what? You've been ON your meds all this time?

hahahaha ... does that infer I need to up the dose ?? :wink::-p
 
Greg Bernhardt said:
Wait, it's still Thursday here :biggrin:

that was "so yesterday" :-p
 
It's Friday here. :oldwink:
 
davenn said:
hahahaha ... does that infer I need to up the dose ?? :wink::-p
You need to look up infer and imply, but yes :smile:
 
phinds said:
You need to look up infer and imply, but yes :smile:
hmmmm...
Yesterday, I couldn't decide between i.e. and e.g., so I used both; "...id est, exempli gratia: Everyone is either broke, or going broke. And when you're broke, you can't fix ****. And when you can't fix ****, **** stays broke. hmmmm... Someone needs to fix this ****! Kapeesh"?
 
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OmCheeto said:
hmmmm...
Yesterday, I couldn't decide between i.e. and e.g., so I used both; "...id est, exempli gratia: Everyone is either broke, or going broke. And when you're broke, you can't fix ****. And when you can't fix ****, **** stays broke. hmmmm... Someone needs to fix this ****! Kapeesh"?
You have implied that you find those Latin abbreviation confusing and from that I infer that you don't use them very often.
 
phinds said:
You have implied that you find those Latin abbreviation confusing and from that I infer that you don't use them very often.
Correct!
But when I do use them, I generally use them incorrectly, on purpose. :biggrin: