http://www.johnhendron.net/digest/2007/07/28/on-e-mail/ education technology Tue, 06 Jan 2009 02:30:55 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 http://www.johnhendron.net/digest/2007/07/28/on-e-mail/#comment-135 Will Schwalbe Mon, 30 Jul 2007 03:33:38 +0000 http://www.johnhendron.net/digest/2007/07/28/on-e-mail/#comment-135 <p>Thanks for the post! It's funny about email vs e-mail. When we started writing the book, we used e-mail which is New York Times style. But we showed an early draft to Naomi Baron, a linguistics professor who has written some great stuff on electronic communication, and she told us that younger people almost never use the hyphenated form and that it was really a relic of the early days. I've had a "Google alert" on for both forms, and I must say that I am finding the unhyphenated much more common. So I think I'm glad we chose it. But the NYT still goes for the hyphen as do a lot of other folk. I can easily see it argued either way. Best, Will Schwalbe, co-auhtor of SEND</p> Thanks for the post!
It’s funny about email vs e-mail. When we started writing the book, we used e-mail which is New York Times style. But we showed an early draft to Naomi Baron, a linguistics professor who has written some great stuff on electronic communication, and she told us that younger people almost never use the hyphenated form and that it was really a relic of the early days. I’ve had a “Google alert” on for both forms, and I must say that I am finding the unhyphenated much more common. So I think I’m glad we chose it. But the NYT still goes for the hyphen as do a lot of other folk. I can easily see it argued either way.
Best,
Will Schwalbe, co-auhtor of SEND

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