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cotados8

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Spain, spanish
Is correct the use of i.e in the follow sentence:
The studies were also important to better understand numerous human diseases direct depending on cytoskeleton dysfunction, i.e. Alzeimer and ................
Thanks for your advices to improve this sentence.
Is correct the use of i.e in the follow sentence:
The studies were also important to better understand numerous human diseases direct depending on cytoskeleton dysfunction, i.e. Alzeimer and ................
Thanks for your advices to improve this sentence.

"directly depending"
I believe in this sentence you mean "e.g." and not "i.e."
e.g. means "for example,"
whereas i.e. means "which is."
In your sentence, "Alzheimer's" is an example of one of the "numerous diseases."
I wouldn't put a comma after i.e. (or e.g. which, like Esca, is what I think you mean)
I accept Ewie's authority for the British usage, but in American English, we put commas after i.e. and e.g. just as we would after the words they represent if translated into English: "that is" (i.e.) or "for sake of example" (e.g.).

That is, I agree with cyberpedant.
Really?! I'm surprised. Commas there look positively bizarre to me.
Really?! I'm surprised. Commas there look positively bizarre to me.

So sorry. Maybe the British have a special sensitivity to accumulations of punctuation. But if you are writing them as eg and ie, that wouldn't be a problem.

Me, I like commas as reminders that i.e. and e.g. stand for real words, and are not simply a weird grammatical code.
I agree with ewie! I looks very strange to me!! Would you ever put a comma after any other abbreviations? Just wondering 👁 Smile :)

I put commas after abreviations where I would put commas after the words they represent. Where I wouldn't, I don't.
Erm ... are we all talking about the same thing? Commas i.e. and e.g.?
Oh okay I see what you mean. I suppose it's just one of the many minor differences between AE and BE. Thanks for satisfying my curiosity!! 👁 Wink ;)
id est (that is to say) and exempli gratia (for the sake of example] ) = for example should logically not be cut off from their predicates by commas any more than an equals sign should have a comma after it.
Erm ... are we all talking about the same thing? Commas i.e. and e.g.?

Yup. I can understand your shock.
Is correct the use of i.e in the follow sentence:
The studies were also important to better understand numerous human diseases direct depending on cytoskeleton dysfunction, i.e. Alzeimer and ................
Thanks for your advices to improve this sentence.

I think this thread is starting to go a little off-topic. Cotados8 probably wants to know if the use of 'i.e' is correct in this case.

To be honest, I am not quite sure. If Alzheimer's was the only cytoskeletal dysfunction known to men, then your use of 'i.e' would be correct. If you were simply trying to exemplify it, then this would not be correct; the correct word in this instance would be 'e.g'.

I also have a problem with your use of 'depending on'. I can't get myself to understand it in the context of this sentence. What do you mean by "... numerous human diseases directly depending on cytoskeletal dysfunction"?
I agree with jamesjiao - maybe directly dependant on cytoskeletal dysfunction would be better?
I agree with jamesjiao - maybe directly dependant on cytoskeletal dysfunction would be better?

Since the original poster hasn't yet replied, it's unclear what he wants to say exactly.

I can see two possibilities:

a) ... numerous human diseases, of which cytoskeletal dysfunction was one.

b) ... numerous human diseases, all of which involve cytoskeletal dysfunction (as a condition/symptom rather than the name of a disease).

I vote for the latter, in which case I would suggest cotados8 to use words like 'involve' or 'be related to'. Having diseases depend on a symptom just doesn't work with me. Correction:

The studies were also important to better understand numerous human diseases directly involving cytoskeletal dysfunction, e.g. Alzheimer's disease.

Logically speaking, now that there are numerous human diseases involved, "i.e." is no longer correct.
1) Another proposal:
The studies were also important to better understand numerous human diseases which depend directly on cytoskeleton dysfunction, such as Alzeimer and ...

2) About the question of the comma after i.e., I think that, from the point of view of the meaning, there should be no comma, for the strictly logical reason explained by Arrius in post #13.
However, in the spoken language it often appear a little stop after saying "that is", having only an emphasis value --- giving almost the taste of an imaginary semicolumn ":".
And the written language, perhaps centuries later, goes in the direction of imitating the spoken one. So, in the end, I think the comma after "that is" comes from that little emphasis break in the spoken English.

Salegrosso.
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