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Which is better for a non-technical audience?

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I don't understand the question.
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« Reply #25 on: January 05, 2009, 04:59:39 PM »
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As with everything else in life, I'd just do what JonBoy would do.
Jon Boy has never had a strong preference for either form, but he definitely puts a space between Jon and Boy.

I honestly don't think it's possible to say that one form or the other is objectively better for a non-technical (or any) audience.


Also, I'm going to be an anal-retentive mod and move this thread over to the other side.
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« Reply #26 on: January 05, 2009, 05:06:46 PM »
Also, I don't think a Googlefight will settle it, because it doesn't (really) distinguish between the hyphenated and unhyphenated forms. However, the Corpus of Contemporary American English gives 1673 hits for "email" and 18,456 for "e-mail".
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« Reply #27 on: January 05, 2009, 05:42:00 PM »
After I answered the poll, I read a NY Times article. They use e-mail.
(My poll response was email.)
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« Reply #28 on: January 05, 2009, 06:26:36 PM »
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I honestly don't think it's possible to say that one form or the other is objectively better for a non-technical (or any) audience.
And here I was thinking you were a popular usage guy.
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« Reply #29 on: January 05, 2009, 06:27:19 PM »
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Also, I'm going to be an anal-retentive mod and move this thread over to the other side.
And here I was thinking you were a popular usage guy.
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« Reply #30 on: January 05, 2009, 06:58:10 PM »
My beliefs are not nearly as simple as that.
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« Reply #31 on: January 05, 2009, 10:08:15 PM »
My email server (Verizon) calls it "Email" or "email", and they ought to know.
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« Reply #32 on: January 06, 2009, 07:42:51 AM »
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After I answered the poll, I read a NY Times article. They use e-mail.
(My poll response was email.)
That's because most newspapers use AP style guidelines :)
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« Reply #33 on: January 06, 2009, 08:00:39 AM »
I prefer TS (Tante Shvester) style guidelines.  The punctuation goes after the quotation marks.  The object before the verb goes.  And "by" can substitute for most prepositions.

For instance, "You are so beautiful to me" is rendered, "By me you are so beautiful".
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« Reply #34 on: January 06, 2009, 10:01:16 AM »
The New York Times has its own style guide, but it's quite old-fashioned and conservative. They still use periods in most initialisms, for instance, so it's not surprising they'd opt for the hyphen.
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« Reply #35 on: January 06, 2009, 10:07:50 AM »
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After I answered the poll, I read a NY Times article. They use e-mail.
(My poll response was email.)
That's because most newspapers use AP style guidelines :)
What Jonathon said.  
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« Reply #36 on: January 06, 2009, 09:43:29 PM »
I always wrote email until I was working for the lawyer who made me write e-mail, and I asked you all, and it must have been Farmgirl who assured me that e-mail was the AP standard.  But deep down, I prefer email.  Then again, deep down I prefer "judgement".  Not all of my insticts should be trusted.
 
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« Reply #37 on: January 07, 2009, 06:33:27 AM »
I probably use email in chat and general informal writings to friends who don't care, just because I'm lazy.  But for official type stuff for the company, writings on the company website or more formal correspondence, I use e-mail.

I don't think there is a universal standard of any kind.
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« Reply #38 on: January 07, 2009, 11:59:04 AM »
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I don't think there is a universal standard of any kind.
There will be next week.
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