"Hauke Duden" <H.NS.Duden@gmx.net> wrote in message news:bnunf3$e0l$1@digitaldaemon.com...
> z.B. is the short form of "zum Beispiel" which means "for example".

In English we use the Latin "e.g."   I always get e.g. and i.e. mixed up. "i.e." means "that is".  I'm not sure why we use those abbreviations if we don't know what they mean.  I think we know what they mean but we don't know why they mean what they mean, if you know what I mean.

> And yes, I'm a smart ass too ;).

Your point is...?  ;)

Hauke Duden wrote:
> Charles Hixson wrote:
> ...
>> latin, but now common in English, and rather like the German z.b. (which I can't quite remember the expansion of).
> ...
> z.B. is the short form of "zum Beispiel" which means "for example".
> 
> And yes, I'm a smart ass too ;).
> 
> Hauke
> 

Sorry, it's been a number of decades.  My appologies.