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A chum on another list wrote to me: "my eply to the list bounced back 'cause I haven't changed my email membership yet.."
I asked about her use of the term "eply" because I thought it merely a typo, but no: she used it intentionally to mean "a reply sent by e-mail."
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What an evolting efilement of an erfectly innocent word.
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an evolting efilement
The language is, indeed, evolting, Max.
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A usage to be eviled. But I guess if I were to use it, which I won't, I'd use e-ply. But then it annoys me when people leave out the hyphen in e-mail. 
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This one grates on my ears. It sounds cutesy. It's not as if reply is too long or ambiguous.
eply, on the other hand, will only get her the reputation of a person who doesn't check her spelling. How many people will ask her about it like you did instead of just assuming it's a mistake.
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If it were up to me (which it isn't), all of the made-up words which start with e- to signify some connection to computers or the Net would drop out of the lexicon ... even e-mail, for which the simpler "message" works just fine.
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I think I'd miss the word e-mail. It's like the word fax. It explains a method of communication.
If I said, "I sent a message to Bob." You don't know if it is by regular mail, and it'll take a while for Bob to get it, by fax, which can also take a time until it reaches his desk, or e-mail, which is immediate.
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Even if you have a known computer geek using 'message' you're more likely to assume he's using instant message. Far as I'm concerned the - in e-mail is a waste of a keystroke. Like the - in base-ball.
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Looks to me like a logical coinage--maybe a little 'cutesy'
but potentially useful. The hypen does make e-ply more recognizable, an intentional spelling rather than a typo.
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>but potentially useful.
How so? Email (with or without the hyphen) distinguishes it from other forms of electronic communication, IM, fax, etc. How does eply serve to differentiate that to which it refers from anything else? In a word, what's the point?
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