Off-topic but eg = for example, ie = in other words.

Both those are from Latin; I knew what e.g. is short for, but now I got around to looking up i.e. too:

ie => id est => that is

eg => exempli gratia => for example

Thanks, as a non native speaker this is very useful for me

FWIW nobody's been a native Latin speaker for a thousand-plus years. You're in the same boat as everybody else! ;-)

True, but the problem is that my language (Italian) only uses "es." for "e.g." and doesn't have an equivalent acronym for "i.e." (we usually use other complete words that roughly translate to "therefore"), so it's easy for me to mix them up since I can't easily map them.

Thanks, I always mix them up.