“E-mail o email?” secondo Knuth…
Salve gente.
Dietro gentile segnalazione del Gufo (grazie!) ho trovato questa divertente frase di Knuth su come scrivere “email” (mi son permesso di evidenziare in grassetto le parti divertenti)…
A note on email versus e-mail
Newly coined nonce words of English are often spelled with a hyphen, but the hyphen disappears when the words become widely used. For example, people used to write “non-zero” and “soft-ware” instead of “nonzero” and “software”; the same trend has occurred for hundreds of other words. Thus it’s high time for everybody to stop using the archaic spelling “e-mail”. Think of how many keystrokes you will save in your lifetime if you stop now! The form “email” has been well established in England for several years, so I am amazed to see Americans being overly conservative in this regard. (Of course, “email” has been a familiar word in France, Germany, and the Netherlands much longer than in England — but for an entirely different reason.)
Ahahahah…
Ciau! 
Acc… è sempre triste vedere che dei neologismi storici scompaiono grazie all’uso comune. Sono convinto che se il buon Knuth leggesse come vengono trattati questi termini dalle riviste e dai media italiani si ravvederebbe e prenderebbe posizioni più rigide.
…quando i nostri media sanno scriverli in modo corretto (em> viva gli strafalcioni!
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