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Max wrote: "What an evolting efilement of an erfectly innocent word." Loved Max's reply!! As far as 'eply' goes, if it were to work its way into the language, I wouldn't mind at all. In fact, since I'm rarely on the cutting edge of those in the know about current terms, knowing about the existence of 'eply' in its inchoate stage would be great fun if this were a word that came to be generally accepted, although I have my doubts. An eply seems to be a logical consequence of email, and, Nancy, I'm with Faldage in believing that hyphen is a waste of time  . You send out email? You receive eplies. No problem once your eye gets used to seeing the word. I love watching changes in language develop, although I'm usually several years behind the erd [erd = the technological savvy group at large].
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It's easier to say "my reply" than "my eply,"
I'm not so sure that it's harder to say "my eply" since I would pronounce "eply" with the stress on the first syllable. I think it's unnecessary; the context should carry all the information you need.
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Max-baby wrote In a word, what's the point?
Umm...which word was that, Max? I've heard of economy of language, but ...
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In reply to:
Max-baby wrote In a word, what's the point?
Umm...which word was that, Max? I've heard of economy of language, but ...
Finally, somebody calls me on it. Pick one.
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well that was certainly an ineply formed judgment. Gr-oannnn... too many painkillers, eh, tsuwm?
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I don't find e-ply either redundant or ugly, although easier to pronounce at first sight than eply. E-mail was not a word until people got tired of saying electronic mail and fax is only a misspelled (mis-spelled?) abreviation of facsimilie. E-ply is just an abreviation of "reply by electronic mail".  or  [shrug].
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Zed, there are those who revel at change, and those who bristle, yes? Me, I just get a kick out of lang-change.
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You missed a third group. WW. There are those who are unfazed by change, but whose sole criterion for judging any such change is their own intensely personal sense of aesthetics. I don't care that eply is new, I do care that it's ugly, visually and aurally. That is, of course, only my opinion, but, that's the only one that matters.
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Looks like Anu and WW are on the same wavelength; here's what he wrote in yesterday's Word message:
As I see it, there's no reason to relegate any word to the attic of time. The more the merrier. Each word on our verbal palette -- whether new or old -- helps us bring out a nuance in conversation and in writing.
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I do care that it's ugly, visually and aurally
Not to get into a discussion of taste and the individual, but I think it would be great fun to throw this discussion to my musical theatre kids and say, "For homework, take the word eply and work it in such a way that it will sound (to you, at least) like the most beautiful word you've ever heard. Create the monologue so that your audience will be won over. Then write a monologue to show the opposite effect: eply will sound hideous and ugly so that no one would want to use it.
Might be fun, Max...
Thanks for posting Anu's comment, Jackie. I suspect we both probably have our limit. There is an occasional word that grates, especially words that become popular, not so much slang as ones such as "as well." People used to say "too" often. Now it seems most love to pepper their sentences with "as well" and avoid using "too." I can't prove this phenomenon, but I think it's happening.
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