In a message dated 10/5/00 10:50:27 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
imagopus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:
> BTW, I have just learnt from a US Army colleague that in the States
> "i.e." can be taken to mean "illustrating example". Here I use it to
> stand for "id est" which is Latin for "that is".
>
> Please tell me if my US colleague is telling me Porkies (Porkie Pies =
lies).
>
>
> ... just trying to save a little confusion ...
>
> Chris
What can you believe from an organization that invented "SNAFU" which means
"situation normal, all f***ed up"?
Warren
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