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- From: eliz@ai.mit.edu (Elizabeth Willey)
- Newsgroups: misc.writing
- Subject: Re: Request for a new word (or maybe a neologism)
- Message-ID: <ELIZ.92Dec23113337@corpus-callosum.ai.mit.edu>
- Date: 23 Dec 92 16:33:37 GMT
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- Organization: MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
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- In-Reply-To: roth@oasys.dt.navy.mil's message of 22 Dec 92 13:04:58 GMT
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- Pete Roth writes:
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- What do YOU call e-mail correspondence ?
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- I call it electronic correspondence, actually. I compose it, edit it,
- and then send or email it to correspondents or friends.
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- The language as it stands is more than ready to cope with email and
- its users.
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- "Talk" is certainly incorrect.
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- Moreover, "talk" is used for a specific kind of electronic real-time
- interaction.
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- "Writing" doesn't seem to fit.
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- Indeed? Why not? If I write books and short stories at a computer,
- why should I not also write letters for electronic mail?
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- You seem to be getting dangerously close to being lost in the White
- Knight's quandary.
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- Elizabeth Willey
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