I just use "mail". email vs. postal mail or physical mail when it needs further disambiguation.
Agreed, it would save a lot of keystrokes if we just call it mail :)
Email (let's drop the hyphen) (2003)
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Re: Email (let's drop the hyphen) (2003)
#12Massive douche.
Re: Email (let's drop the hyphen) (2003)
#13But people still speak with it in there, great quote btw: 'I don't even have an e-mail address. I have reached an age where my main purpose is not to receive messages.' --- Umberto Eco, quoted in the New Yorker
The New Yorker tends to hang on to hyphens far longer than the rest of the printed world. Those and diaereses. You'll still see things like "teen-ager" and "coördinate" among their pages. It's just part of their style.
Re: Email (let's drop the hyphen) (2003)
#14I like the term "the Electromail" as used by The Watley Review [1].
Re: Email (let's drop the hyphen) (2003)
#15Eddie: Is it hyphenated?
Chief Wiggum: It used to be. Back in the bad old days. Of course every generation hyphenates the way it wants to. Then there's N'Sync. Heh. What the hell is that. Jump in any time, Eddie, these are good topics.
Re: Email (let's drop the hyphen) (2003)
#16Massive douche.
I love that you just called Donald Knuth a massive douche. That is all.
Re: Email (let's drop the hyphen) (2003)
#17Somewhere along the line, I failed to realize that some people still use the hyphen in eMail.
Re: Email (let's drop the hyphen) (2003)
#18Startup opportunity: Secretary, a service that reads your incoming e-mail and holds unimportant e-mail to release it to your inbox every 3 months...
Re: Email (let's drop the hyphen) (2003)
#19Eddie: Is it hyphenated? Chief Wiggum: It used to be. Back in the bad old days. Of course every generation hyphenates the way it wants to. Then there's N'Sync. Heh. What the hell is that. Jump in any time, Eddie, these are good topics.
My upvote, sir. HN needs more Simpsons' quotes.
Re: Email (let's drop the hyphen) (2003)
#20But people still speak with it in there, great quote btw: 'I don't even have an e-mail address. I have reached an age where my main purpose is not to receive messages.' --- Umberto Eco, quoted in the New Yorker
By that, do you mean people pronounce it e-mail, with a long e? Because we have words like emu, evoke, even, elongate, and others. We don't necessarily need a dash to pronounce a long e.
If that's not what you meant, carry on. ;)