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brewmarchetoday at 5:38 PM3 repliesview on HN

Your comment put me on a side quest to research the differences between i.e., e.g., viz. and sc. and I have to admit that I’m still not 100% sure


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chrismorgantoday at 6:41 PM

Don’t think I’ve ever heard of scilicet. <https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=viz.,sc.&year_...> definitely suggests viz. to have been massively more popular than sc.

NooneAtAll3today at 8:15 PM

i.e. == aka == in other words

e.g. == f.e., for example

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HappMacDonaldtoday at 6:39 PM

Concordantly, vis a vis, ergo..