Anybody else prefer 'non-zero' to 'nonzero'?
Email (let's drop the hyphen) (2003)
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Re: Email (let's drop the hyphen) (2003)
#22"Of course, ``email'' has been a familiar word in France, Germany, and the Netherlands much longer than in England --- but for an entirely different reason." - what he is on about there?
Re: Email (let's drop the hyphen) (2003)
#23"I have a wonderful secretary who looks at the incoming mail and separates out anything that she knows I've been looking forward to seeing urgently." Ding ding ding.
Oh, I have a secretary like that too; she's called The New Gmail
D. E. Knuth would not agree: "(Encrypted messages that I get from "gmail.com" are also gibberish and unreadable without great pain.) Send PLAIN ASCII TEXT ONLY."
Re: Email (let's drop the hyphen) (2003)
#24Eddie: 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.
They only come out at night. Or, in this case, during the daytime.
Re: Email (let's drop the hyphen) (2003)
#25"Of course, ``email'' has been a familiar word in France, Germany, and the Netherlands much longer than in England --- but for an entirely different reason." - what he is on about there?
Email is the French / German / Dutch word for enamel.
Of course the pronounciation is very different.
Re: Email (let's drop the hyphen) (2003)
#26"Of course, ``email'' has been a familiar word in France, Germany, and the Netherlands much longer than in England --- but for an entirely different reason." - what he is on about there?
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Re: Email (let's drop the hyphen) (2003)
#27Interestingly, this is still a style choice.
Just a few more to consider:
* webpage vs web page
* website vs web site
* lifestyle vs life style
* Asian-American vs Asian American
* e-commerce vs ecommerce
* cannot vs can not
* real-time vs real time (as one of the comments in this thread).
http://www.quickanddirtytips.com/education/grammar/e-mail-or...
http://www.reuters.com/article/2007/09/21/us-britain-hyphen-...
http://www.glendalenewspress.com/news/tn-gnp-aword-20100901,...
My English teacher tells us that we change grammar as we progress as a society. Articles from the 1700s will be different from the one from 1800s, 1900s and 2000s.
Also, writing style and grammar are also regional and industry dependent.
Some note from Oxford dictionary (http://blog.oxforddictionaries.com/2011/10/hyphens-in-the-he...)
> Let’s just step back from the hyperbole: how do dictionary-makers decide whether noun compounds should be hyphenated or not? It’s not an arbitrary choice: for our current English dictionaries, such as the free one on this website, Oxford’s lexicographers assiduously check the evidence of billions of words of today’s English on a huge database, the Oxford English Corpus. If they see that in the vast majority of cases, a noun such as ice cream is written as an unhyphenated two-word form, then this is the spelling they will select to appear in the dictionary.
Re: Email (let's drop the hyphen) (2003)
#28I have switched from basically real-time email push correspondence to manual fetch every day or two. Basically, when I feel like it. My mail traffic has dropped from ~50 to 1 to 2 a day. It's hard to say whether it benefited me or not, but I'm sure of one thing - I don't waste time on email anymore.
Does anyone know if its possible to hack GMail such that it only updates your inbox at certain times? I've fallen into a habit of checking it more often than I should (on a computer, both work and personal) and it would certainly help me if the inbox just didn't update with new mail continuously.
You can get 90% of the way there if you turn off gmail notifications on your phone.
Re: Email (let's drop the hyphen) (2003)
#29Drop the "E". Just "Mail". It's cleaner.
Re: Email (let's drop the hyphen) (2003)
#30"Of course, ``email'' has been a familiar word in France, Germany, and the Netherlands much longer than in England --- but for an entirely different reason." - what he is on about there?
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