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"e.g." is short for "exempli gratia", which is latin for "for example".
It hasn't been announced that they're getting rid of it, but it's a good example of what Reddit could do to fuck up.
I never actually looked this up before. I think in my head I've been reading it as being short for "eggsample" this whole time
I thought "example given"
A much more reasonable assumption to make