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Re: Request for a new word (or maybe a neologism)

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From: Elizabeth Willey
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 16:33
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Pete Roth writes:

   What do YOU call e-mail correspondence ?

I call it electronic correspondence, actually.  I compose it, edit it,
and then send or email it to correspondents or friends.

The language as it stands is more than ready to cope with email and
its users.

   "Talk" is certainly incorrect.

Moreover, "talk" is used for a specific kind of electronic real-time
interaction.

   "Writing" doesn't seem to fit.

Indeed?  Why not?  If I write books and short stories at a computer,
why should I not also write letters for electronic mail?

You seem to be getting dangerously close to being lost in the White
Knight's quandary.


Elizabeth Willey
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Subject: Re: Request for a new word (or maybe a neologism)
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