[ih] Any suggestions for first uses of "e-mail" or "email"?

[Ted Faber]

On 07/24/2015 08:40, John Day wrote:
> It does sound more like a term a journalist would create than an engineer, since to our minds it really isn’t *electronic*.

Yes.  Mike would make that point with some frequency (and amplitude) as
well.

The media has these regular flirtations with single letter prefixes
(e-mail, iPhone).  Odd, but predictable.  I'm kind of hoping that the
next one is a kana or emojii.

-- 
Ted Faber, Computer Scientist, USC/ISI
http://www.isi.edu/~faber
http://www.isi.edu/~faber/contact.html

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