At least there is email
I got my old computer working with my backup hard drive. Windows reinstalled. Windows upgraded. Windows rebooted. I don't have all my files yet, but at least I am not email-less.
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Staring at the Web,
I'm lost in my reflection.
'Net narcissism.
My own little corner of self-worship.
Contact:
- narciblog (at) gmail.com
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Hyphen:
This is the mark (-) English uses to link the parts of some compound words, including most of those containing prepositions; to combine single-word proper nouns such as place names; to put between some prefixes and the root words to which they’re joined; to avoid ambiguity in compound modifiers; to use between parts of fractions as these are spelled out, especially as modifiers; to mean “up to and including” when used between numbers or dates; etc.
Abbreviation is not one of the accepted uses for the hyphen. If you wish, you may use e'mail, but you will be the only person on the planet that does so.
You know those social science types, they can't be trusted with technical stuff.
Google returns 3.2 million hits for "e-mail" and 2.0 million for "email," so there's some disagreement.
Interestingly enough, Google Scholar returns 2.9 million for "email" but only 1.5 million for "e-mail.'
Oh, but we don't. From The American Heritage Dictionary:
The development of website as a single uncapitalized word mirrors the development of other technological expressions which have tended to evolve into unhyphenated forms as they become more familiar. Thus email has recently been gaining ground over the forms E-mail and e-mail, especially in texts that are more technologically oriented.
If you really want to swim with the grammar pedants, there's always this thread in alt.usage.english. I liked this bit:
There are lots of authoritative references. They disagree on just
about everything.
This isn't a word that has a "correct" spelling or punctuation. It's still in flux. Now can we get back to discussing important things, like the Oxford comma? :-)
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