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Email is the French / German / Dutch word for enamel. Of course the pronounciation is very different.
Thanks. The French linguistic equivalent is the shortening of "courrier électronique" to "courriel".
"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?
For French, he's probably referring to the word "émail", which means "enamel". To my knowledge, the word "email" without an accent does not exist in French.
Startup opportunity: Secretary, a service that reads your incoming e-mail and holds unimportant e-mail to release it to your inbox every 3 months...
And when the machine learning algorithm gets it wrong after lots of right predictions, you find out that someone forgot to renew your domain the hard way. Even googles tabbed inbox makes me miss things, since glancing at the main inbox revealed nothing of importance.. It's not for me at least.
Is that really still a thing?
Keeping the bank account used for direct debit for the domains above zero should not be that hard I would assume.
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Email is the French / German / Dutch word for enamel. Of course the pronounciation is very different.
Thanks. The French linguistic equivalent is the shortening of "courrier électronique" to "courriel".
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Email is the French / German / Dutch word for enamel. Of course the pronounciation is very different.
I am German and I did not know this, was only aware of the alternative form Emaille.
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Oh, I have a secretary like that too; she's called The New Gmail
ha, the new gmail constantly puts e-mails from my customers into "Promotions"...
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The problem with that is that "email" is an actual word in other languages. In Portuguese, "email" is email, but "mail" means nothing so I guess "email" is a better "global" option...
In German "Email" means enamel, so the blessed spelling is E-Mail.
Interestingly, 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-... h…
As an American, I figure that the most efficient (or maybe you prefer "laziest") option will win in the end. This means dropping spaces and hyphens whenever possible.
Given this, I'm going to say "realtime" will eventually win. It's apparently already in my dictionary since it's not even marked as a spelling mistake.
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ha, the new gmail constantly puts e-mails from my customers into "Promotions"...
I'm confused by this response, and I've seen it often. You don't have to use this feature of Gmail. It can easily be reverted back to default email behavior. So I'm perplexed when people complain about it not working very well, and from everything I've heard, few people actually do think it works well...