which is correct (English speaking world): e-mail or email?
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old ones, or new ones ? (payback) :-D Do you know why it's important to make fast decisions? Because you give yourself more time to correct your mistakes, when you find out that you made the wrong one. Chris Meech on deciding whether to go to his daughters graduation or a Neil Young concert
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We say "get a life" to each other, disappointed or jokingly. What we forget, though, is that this is possibly the most destructive advice you can give to a geek.
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We say "get a life" to each other, disappointed or jokingly. What we forget, though, is that this is possibly the most destructive advice you can give to a geek.
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[MCP-mode] but rarely correct [/MCP-mode]
We say "get a life" to each other, disappointed or jokingly. What we forget, though, is that this is possibly the most destructive advice you can give to a geek.
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We say "get a life" to each other, disappointed or jokingly. What we forget, though, is that this is possibly the most destructive advice you can give to a geek.
boost your code || Fold With Us! || sighistMost modern usage standards support both spellings. However, no usage standard supports "email" as a verb; 't is only a noun. Therefore, you cannot "email someone;" rather, you must "send an email to someone." "we must lose precision to make significant statements about complex systems." -deKorvin on uncertainty
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We say "get a life" to each other, disappointed or jokingly. What we forget, though, is that this is possibly the most destructive advice you can give to a geek.
boost your code || Fold With Us! || sighistI think e-mail is preferable because it matches the pronounciation better. Email looks like it should have a short 'e' like exact.
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Most modern usage standards support both spellings. However, no usage standard supports "email" as a verb; 't is only a noun. Therefore, you cannot "email someone;" rather, you must "send an email to someone." "we must lose precision to make significant statements about complex systems." -deKorvin on uncertainty
English commonly turns nouns into verbs and email is no exception. (Several dictionaries now explicitly state that email is both a noun and a verb.) Anyone who thinks he has a better idea of what's good for people than people do is a swine. - P.J. O'Rourke
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We say "get a life" to each other, disappointed or jokingly. What we forget, though, is that this is possibly the most destructive advice you can give to a geek.
boost your code || Fold With Us! || sighistIf you are a descriptivist, email is the correct usage. It can be pluralized and used as both a noun and verb. (The dropping of hyphens and spaces is actually quite normal in language evolution. Email has followed a common pattern; it started as "electronic mail" (no hyphen), led to "e-mail" and then to "email". Multimedia dropped its hyphen, though "multi" has a tradition as a non-hyphenated prefix. Incidentally, hyphen usage in English is actually declining overall.) Anyone who thinks he has a better idea of what's good for people than people do is a swine. - P.J. O'Rourke
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English commonly turns nouns into verbs and email is no exception. (Several dictionaries now explicitly state that email is both a noun and a verb.) Anyone who thinks he has a better idea of what's good for people than people do is a swine. - P.J. O'Rourke
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English commonly turns nouns into verbs and email is no exception. (Several dictionaries now explicitly state that email is both a noun and a verb.) Anyone who thinks he has a better idea of what's good for people than people do is a swine. - P.J. O'Rourke
Man, I did not say not to use it as a verb. I only stated that many style guides state to use it as a noun and gave an example. A vast difference exists between dictionaries and style guides. Dictionaries only bring meaning; style guides can bring consistency and appeal to an adherent's writings. "we must lose precision to make significant statements about complex systems." -deKorvin on uncertainty
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Joe Woodbury wrote:
English commonly turns nouns into verbs and email is no exception. (Several dictionaries now explicitly state that email is both a noun and a verb.)
"Verbing nounds wierds English." Not sure where I 1st saw this.
"C'mon, Dan, donchya wanna Google 'verbing'," asked the one-toothed man. (Great quote. Mind if I use it?) "we must lose precision to make significant statements about complex systems." -deKorvin on uncertainty
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"C'mon, Dan, donchya wanna Google 'verbing'," asked the one-toothed man. (Great quote. Mind if I use it?) "we must lose precision to make significant statements about complex systems." -deKorvin on uncertainty
Curtis S. wrote:
"C'mon, Dan, donchya wanna Google 'verbing'," asked the one-toothed man. (Great quote. Mind if I use it?)
Googling came up with alot of other people using the line, but nothing pointing to the source. I want to say it's from Calvin and Hobbesm but don't have anything except an early am gut feeling to base it on. As for stealing it, knock yourself out, you aren't the only one.