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		Zolomon on Nov 2, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The pool of talented C++ developers is running dry id est (i.e.) = that is (literally "it is") exempli gratia (e.g.) = for the sake of example, for example See: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Latin_phrases

jjtheblunt on Nov 3, 2022 [–]

Thanks.

Coincidentally, I had years of Latin so I knew those, but thought this had some other contextual meaning, a name of something (like IE for Internet Explorer). Apparently not!

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