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It's the little things that get to me.. I guess I'm a fairly observant person, and as such, the minutiae that often passes under most people's radar seems to stick up on mine. Here are just a few quick things you can do to avoid looking silly to the 0.01% of the population that are like me.
- Eg vs Ie
This is a common mistake that a lot of people make. Eg is used when you are providing an example, such as: There are many brands of t-shirts that the common douchebag wears these days. Eg. Xtreme Couture
Ie is used to indicate that you are providing another way to say the same thing. When you see the letters Ie, read them as saying "Also known as", or "That is to say". As an example: "Of all my friends that punch goats (Ie, Davey, Graham, and Davin), Davey definitely gets the most satisfying bleat out of them".
- For all intents and purposes
Make sure you read the phrase above clearly, because it looks pretty dumb when people I work with send out e-mails that tell me what we should be doing for all intensive purposes. This is simply a problem derived from the fact that many people have heard this phrase used colloquially, but never actually read it in a book. If you think about it, it doesn't make a tremendous amount of sense to have a set of "intensive" purposes.
- LOL
LOL sucks. Stop using it (lol!).That's all for now.
