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Which is better for a non-technical audience?

I don't understand the question.
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Email
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I don't understand the question.
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Offline Lady Montagu

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« on: January 05, 2009, 12:06:41 PM »
E-mail (email) is a word on the cusp. It almost, almost doesn't need a hyphen, and in many places, it doesn't have it.

The Library had a standard (e-mail), but this place doesn't, and I suspect I get to set it. I haven't decided yet. I suppose I could ask googlefight to settle it for me, but I thought I would poll y'all.  
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« Reply #1 on: January 05, 2009, 12:11:52 PM »
I prefer e'mail.  
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« Reply #2 on: January 05, 2009, 12:12:14 PM »
I am apparently your first vote.  I voted e-mail.

(To me, it's kind of like a contraction, but with a hyphen.  And I don't drop the apostrophe from contractions, so why the hyphen?)
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« Reply #3 on: January 05, 2009, 12:12:37 PM »
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« Reply #4 on: January 05, 2009, 12:14:15 PM »
I'm on the cutting edge.

Email.
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« Reply #5 on: January 05, 2009, 12:16:42 PM »
What technically is the function of the hyphen in e-mail? It's a contracted, compound word, right?

That's why I said e'mail.

Wikipedia uses e-mail. It's what I prefer to use as well, but I have no basis for that preference.
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« Reply #6 on: January 05, 2009, 12:17:30 PM »
Whoops. I voted my preference (email) rather than what would be best for a non-technical audience (e-mail). Sorry.
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« Reply #7 on: January 05, 2009, 12:17:45 PM »
I've never ever used a hyphen.  I always write email as do most people in their corporate/education setting communications addressed to me.  
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« Reply #8 on: January 05, 2009, 12:29:32 PM »
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Our flowers are merely–flowers,
And the shadow of thy perfect bliss is the sunshine of ours.

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« Reply #9 on: January 05, 2009, 12:31:35 PM »
Just like my canceled/cancelled, traveled/travelled, labeled/labelled thing.  That drives me crazy.
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« Reply #10 on: January 05, 2009, 12:33:39 PM »
As with everything else in life, I'd just do what JonBoy would do.
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« Reply #11 on: January 05, 2009, 12:45:35 PM »
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As with everything else in life, I'd just do what JonBoy would do.
This is so patently false, it goes beyond the ridiculous. :P



I voted for "email" because that is definitely the trend I have been seeing, including in non-technical environments.
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« Reply #12 on: January 05, 2009, 01:00:42 PM »
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I voted for "email" because that is definitely the trend I have been seeing, including in non-technical environments.
Me too.


And rivka, are you arguing that Jesse isn't the very model of modern Mormon gentleman?  
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« Reply #13 on: January 05, 2009, 01:01:32 PM »
What alliteration.  And nice Penzance reference. :D
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« Reply #14 on: January 05, 2009, 01:02:17 PM »
:) If I were having a slower day than I am I'd have done the whole song.

[Edit - and come up with something better than "gentleman" for that stand in for "general"]
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« Reply #15 on: January 05, 2009, 01:16:25 PM »
Definitely email.  
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« Reply #16 on: January 05, 2009, 01:20:04 PM »
Thats not right.
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« Reply #17 on: January 05, 2009, 01:31:19 PM »
I use both, just to keep 'em guessing.
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« Reply #18 on: January 05, 2009, 01:50:20 PM »
I voted email.
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« Reply #19 on: January 05, 2009, 02:01:56 PM »
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rivka, are you arguing that Jesse isn't the very model of modern Mormon gentleman?
Precisely.
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« Reply #20 on: January 05, 2009, 02:02:17 PM »
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I use both, just to keep 'em guessing.
Troublemaker. :P
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« Reply #21 on: January 05, 2009, 02:15:33 PM »
I find myself using "EMail" (note capital "M") a lot, especially when I'm doing things like naming database fields and whatnot.

I've never hyphenated it.
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« Reply #22 on: January 05, 2009, 02:21:35 PM »
I prefer e-mail because it's AP style, and I have a thing about that.
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« Reply #23 on: January 05, 2009, 02:27:22 PM »
Chicago and the Miriam Webbstterr agree, Farmgirl.

I'm still pondering. I think I need to find out more about our audience.
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« Reply #24 on: January 05, 2009, 02:51:25 PM »
Why are you doubling up the "Webster" like that?
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