WIRED Magazine's copy-editing chief has proclaimed in the Wired News Web site that caps are no longer necessary for Internet or Web, and, further, that you can drop the hyphen in e-mail.
What do you all think about that?
******* "Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions. ~Dalai Lama
I suppose I could deal, but our organization's style manual says that we must capitalize Internet and Web and put the hypen in e-mail. I suppose the Internet is an evolving field, and we should come to expect that.
However, it does mean that for awhile there will be no consistency!
quote:Originally posted by Caterwauller: ... caps are no longer necessary for Internet or Web, and, further, that you can drop the hyphen in e-mail.
What do you all think about that?
I don't think the hyphen is necessary. I dropped it quite a while ago. But I still use capitals. Next, they'll be telling us spaces and punctuation are unnecessary.
When we meet people in that other world -- away from the Internet -- we make judgments based on their means of self expression such as appearance, sex, age, clothing, sound of voice, language, dialect, accent, and the list goes on. Here our bases for judgment (and theirs) are reduced to the style and content of writing.
Couth? Uncouth? Do we care?
Posts: 6708 | Location: Kehena Beach, Hawaii, U.S.A.
I agree with arnie, here. They have their own opinion of style, and others have theirs.
As far as judging, well, we do judge others by their writing. There are limits, though. The hypen in e-mail doesn't affect me that much. Using an apostrophe in a plural word, that does. [Yeah, yeah, you don't have to tell me. I just made that exact mistake here; that's why I use that example. I was really quite embarrassed about it. ]
Bob, I'm trying to link to the world that you're inviting us to join you in exploring.
Ah, I remember those halcyon days. That was the world I used to inhabit when I had money but no job. Nowadays alas 'tis the other way round and my world consists of my house, my classroom and a seat on the the train that takes me from one to the other.
And here of course. I guess you might call it the third place or am I in the wrong thread.
Still, thanks for reminding me. I must go and revisit myself in cyberspace and read all about those wonderful places again.
"No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money." Samuel Johnson.
quote:Originally posted by Caterwauller: _WIRED_ Magazine's copy-editing chief has proclaimed in the Wired News Web site that caps are no longer necessary for Internet or Web, and, further, that you can drop the hyphen in e-mail.
]