RE: "Email" vs. "E-mail"

[Mike Tulloch <mike -at- infoinfocus -dot- com>]

On Fri, 15 Jul 2005, Joyce Fetterman wrote:

> 
> Mike Tulloch wrote:
> << Either email or e-mail is fine with me, but e-mail is looking more and
> more archaic. There's something different about computer terms, I think,
> that leads to dropping the hyphen; it may be because of the immense amount
> of new words being coined from that field. That linguistic activity pushes
> older terms back into standard English. Yes no, maybe so?>>
> 
> 
> But do you also drop the hyphen in ecommerce and ebusiness?

E-commerce and E-business are words which are dying out, so I don't use 
them at all. Why? E-commerce was only christened because the off-line 
companies saw something new and so applied a term to the out group. Now 
that the "wow" of making money via the Internet is gone, and 
many folks realize that business is business is business, 
e-commerce and e-business are linguistic Dodos. Any company that 
identifies themselves as e-commerce really isn't. :)

Just my .02.

~Mike
It's just like "foxcore" -- another nine day's wonder as far as words go.

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