{"id":46261,"date":"2012-05-19T11:17:31","date_gmt":"2012-05-19T16:17:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=46261"},"modified":"2013-11-08T04:29:09","modified_gmt":"2013-11-08T09:29:09","slug":"the-difference-between-i-e-and-e-g","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2012\/05\/19\/the-difference-between-i-e-and-e-g\/","title":{"rendered":"The Difference Between “i.e.” and “e.g.”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Every once in a while we post something for those of us who are teaching (and learning) how to write. \u00a0This is one of those times.<\/p>\n

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Get it! \u00a0Because you use “i.e.” to mean “what I mean to say is” and you use “e.g.” to mean “for example.” \u00a0Cute.<\/p>\n

From Learn Something New Every Day<\/a>.<\/p>\nLisa Wade, PhD<\/a> is an Associate Professor at Tulane University. She is the author of <\/em>American Hookup<\/a>, a book about college sexual culture; a textbook about gender<\/a>; and a forthcoming introductory text: <\/em>Terrible Magnificent Sociology<\/a>.\u00a0You can follow her on Twitter<\/a> and Instagram<\/a>.<\/em><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Every once in a while we post something for those of us who are teaching (and learning) how to write. \u00a0This is one of those times. Get it! \u00a0Because you use “i.e.” to mean “what I mean to say is” and you use “e.g.” to mean “for example.” \u00a0Cute. From Learn Something New Every Day. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[209,23384],"class_list":["post-46261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-academia","tag-social-construction-discourselanguage"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46261"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46261\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58365,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46261\/revisions\/58365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}