Because nobody knows anymore what e.g. and i.e. mean (in Latin OR in English), and everybody gets them mixed up and uses them incorrectly. "forex" can't be mixed up and only people who remember e.g. get confused!!! :-)
Cheers, Don p.s. exempli gratia -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Craig Froehle Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2007 11:40 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Treo] Re: Foleo: The Death of Palm Totally non sequitur: I just _now_ figured out that your "forex" term means "for example" -- based on your earlier email, I had thought Forex was a brand of laptop I'd never heard of. ;-) Just curious: why write "forex" when "e.g." has fewer letters _and_ is already well established to mean the same thing? It'd be like writing "gdby" to mean "good-bye" when "bye" already exists to do the same thing, wouldn't it? :-)
