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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread words.com #328 03/16/2000 2:38 PM Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 1 Washington DC Padraic stranger Padraic stranger Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 1 Washington DC I used to get really steamed when I read Business Week magazine stories about companies who do business primarily through their Web sites. They constantly referred to companies of that type as "dot.com" companies. I thought that was wrong, because I thought we had established the standard that you "read" the dot separators ("Amazon dot com," "priceline dot com," et al.). To me, that phrase should have been read "dot dot com." First of all, does anyone have other examples of how domain naming protocol has been incorporated into the language? And secondly, is there a word for the phenomenon of writing words that *look* like the phenomenon they are trying to represent? Kinda like onomatopoeia for the eyes.... Thanks! Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: words.com #329 03/17/2000 8:52 PM Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 23 Ohio USA cadaver stranger cadaver stranger Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 23 Ohio USA Along this same line - - does anybody remember the stand-up routine that Victor Borge used to do where he had sound effects and hand motions for punctuation marks ? Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: words.com #330 03/19/2000 5:35 PM Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 6 aja stranger aja stranger Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 6 I do remember and very fondly so!!! Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: words.com #331 06/14/2000 2:42 PM Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 1,981 jmh Pooh-Bah jmh Pooh-Bah Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 1,981 I was reading the Times today and spotted an article on e-commerce. It looks like they read your post and have settled on the dot-com companies, rather than, as you say dot.com(which should be pronounced "dot dot com") Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Moderated by  Jackie  Hop To General Topics ------  Information and announcements  Q&A about words  Wordplay and fun  Words and languages in schools  Miscellany  Weekly Themes  Looking for (writers, speakers,... (Old) Weekly themes. (have been... ------  Words from medicine  Beheading words  Meta-words  Words from classical mythology  Animal Safari  Words with unusual etymologies  Eponyms or words derived from p...  Loanwords from German  English as a global language Print Thread Switch to Threaded Mode Show Likes Link Copied to Clipboard View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary

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