Here are this week’s Life Pro Tips.
1. When buying a blanket, always buy at least one size larger than your bed. It’s at least a hundred times more comfy.
For example, if you have a queen bed, get a king blanket.
2. Before checking in at the airport take a photograph of your luggage.
A picture is worth a thousand words if your bag gets lost!
3. Many of us use i.e. incorrectly. i.e. means “in other words” and e.g. means “for example”.
4. To avoid slipping and falling on ice, walk like a penguin.
Distribute your body weight over one leg at a time as you walk.
5. If you want to prove you’re right, try to prove yourself wrong.
#3 – Case in point. i.e. is latin for “id est”. It means “That is,” (as in, “that is to say”) not “in other words”.
Its usage is for further clarification of a statement, not as a restatement.
“Today I’m wearing my most expensive suit, i.e., the blue pinstripe Tom Ford.”
In this example, “blue pinstripe Tom Ford” is not “another word” for expensive suits. It’s a clarification to the reader who doesn’t know specifically to which suit I’m referring.