Re[2]: (Fwd) Re: RFC1983 (Was E-mail or e-mail)

[Don Smith <dsmith -at- ACCESSBEYOND -dot- COM>]

     Mike Clark Wrote:

     "Besides which, I think English is confusing enough without adding
     more non-rule rules to cover cases in which a simply hyphen would
     suffice.

     Mike"

     I believe that's true, Mike. There are other reasons, too. How about
     what has been sighted here before; tshirt or Tshirt. Terrible! Truly
     the best idea (like it or not), probably is e-mail (or E-mail). A
     basic decision is necessary. Do we want to make a new word "email",
     which probably will happen anyway, sooner or later, or do we want to
     insist that this is a form of mail, namely "electronic-mail", or
     shortened, e-mail.

     I'm sure we won't make this decision anyway, but rather it will happen
     over time. Here there are many examples of words that were separate
     words, placed together into a new word (over time) are now accepted
     with no problem (in most quarters). Examples might be: reboot (boot a
     system that has already been booted); dialback (now a noun for "dial
     the number back") and so on.

     Hey, what do we know, right?

     MOO

     Don Smith

     (I note that my spell checker shows, "Email and EMail as acceptable,
     but not email or E-mail or e-mail. Oh well.)

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