Re: (Fwd) Re: RFC1983 (Was E-mail or e-mail)

["Parks, Beverly" <ParksB -at- EMH1 -dot- HQISEC -dot- ARMY -dot- MIL>]

>Katherine Graden[SMTP:kgraden -at- MAIL -dot- DANCRIS -dot- COM] wrote:
>>> I prefer e-mail over email as an abbreviation for "electronic mail."
>>>After
all, do we say xray or x-ray?  Tshirt or t-shirt? <<

T-shirt, U-joint, U-turn, A-frame, O-ring, E-mail, S-curve.  Can anybody
tell me which of these words doesn't belong?  If you answered E-mail (or
e-mail), you're right! Why? Because the thing being talked about (mail)
isn't shaped like the preceding letter (E). X-ray, I admit, is an
exception. Although most dictionaries allow the spelling without the
>hyphen: x ray.
>
>>> The other thing I have against email is that "email" is the German word
>>>for
>"enamel."  Granted, using email when discussing electronic mail probably
>wouldn't bother anyone who doesn't know German.  But it gets to me every
time I see it in print. <<

This "other language" arguement just doesn't cut it with me. Criminy,
there are words in English alone that are spelled identically but have
different meanings.

If I said "Cut the deck", would we be playing cards or destroying my
>porch? And who knows what else "deck" may mean in other languages!
>
The crusade continues.  ;-)

>Bev Parks
>parksb -at- emh1 -dot- hqisec -dot- army -dot- mil
>

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