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- From: sasafw@dobo.unx.sas.com (Fred Welden)
- Newsgroups: misc.writing
- Subject: Re: Request for a new word (or maybe a neologism)
- Message-ID: <Bzo3Dq.2oJ@unx.sas.com>
- Date: 22 Dec 92 15:37:02 GMT
- References: <28855@oasys.dt.navy.mil> <Bzo19r.MMH@unx.sas.com>
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- In article <Bzo19r.MMH@unx.sas.com>, saslpo@stevens.unx.sas.com (Len Olszewski) writes:
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- |In article <28855@oasys.dt.navy.mil>, roth@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Pete Roth) writes:
- ||> What do YOU call e-mail correspondence ?
- ||>
- ||> "Talk" is certainly incorrect.
- ||> "Writing" doesn't seem to fit.
- ||> "e-mailing" doesn't have the right ring.
- ||> "Networking" applies in other areas.
- ||>
- ||> "Flaming" describes a certain kind of correspondence, but I'm looking
- ||> for a word that describes civilized discourse.
- ||>
- ||> So _what_, already ?
- ||>
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- |It's "online". I get in touch with you online, you reply online; one of
- |us keeps a summary of our online correspondence, and so forth. Posting
- |to a newsgroup qualifies as online communication, as does email.
- |
- ||> (winners will be notified by e-mail. you need not be present to win)
- ||>
- |
- |Good; online notification. Hey, if you disagree, let me know online,
- |would you?
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- Puts me in mind of an expression I first heard at TypEx in Chicago
- (I think it was 1986?). Some IBM rep was presenting their latest
- sales spiel in the guise of an objective comparison of several
- formatting products. Someone stood up and asked "So, have you got
- something that actually runs, or is this just more vaporware from
- Big Blue?"
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- The presenter very coolly responded "Let's take that question offline,
- shall we? Are there any other questions?"
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- --Fred, or another blind 8th-century BC | sasafw@dobo.unx.sas.com
- Hellenic poet of the same name. |
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