Enough punctuated prefixes for you? The Advocate, 2005.06.07, p. 26, emphasis added:
“Ex-gay” advocate speaks
In an interview with The Advocate’s Bob Adams, psychologist Warren Throckmorton – creator of the pro–“ex-gay” film I Do Exist – insists he’s not a reparative therapist and that his far-right pals didn’t demand that…
[continues for some time – Ed.]
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Wired style is simply wrong: E-mail may be e-mail, but it is not email (or ebusiness or econsulting). There aren’t many single-letter prefixes in English (a- is one, as in ahistorical).
According to my Canadian Oxford, e- can be a variant of ex- and also has the sense of “denoting anything in an electronic state.” They don’t capitalize either sense, but they write both with a hyphen, as they must be written.
If you disagree, read the following excerpt out loud and tell me if you don’t make a mistake:
In fact, the only group resistant to ebooks is consumers. Many consumers, never having actually seen or touched a dedicated ereader before, mistakenly think that the only way to read an ebook is on your computer or cell phone.
The foregoing posting appeared on Joe Clark’s personal Weblog on 2005.06.29 14:56. This presentation was designed for printing and omits components that make sense only onscreen. The permanent link is: https://blog.fawny.org/2005/06/29/e/
FlickrBlog notes en passant my incongruous and inexplicable photo set, BACK OF TRUCK, which is turning into a kind of Text on Things for ’05.
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The foregoing posting appeared on Joe Clark’s personal Weblog on 2005.06.28 13:56. This presentation was designed for printing and omits components that make sense only onscreen. The permanent link is: https://blog.fawny.org/2005/06/28/lumber/
Shift Lock key giving you trouble?
(Though, actually, the last computer I used with a Shift Lock was a Victor 9000 circa 1983.)
The foregoing posting appeared on Joe Clark’s personal Weblog on 2005.06.28 13:55. This presentation was designed for printing and omits components that make sense only onscreen. The permanent link is: https://blog.fawny.org/2005/06/28/bbq/
I don’t know if I’m supposed to be sad that old man Pollack’s fishing-supply store went under. I did buy a pair of skates with neon-green runners there, and was well taken care of.
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(Also close-up.)
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…of the Beaches Library. Should the label really be located there and in that orientation, and aren’t we in serious need of an en dash?
The foregoing posting appeared on Joe Clark’s personal Weblog on 2005.06.28 13:52. This presentation was designed for printing and omits components that make sense only onscreen. The permanent link is: https://blog.fawny.org/2005/06/28/trap-door/
