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AP Style nerds

Did you see?

E-mail is now email? Drive-through is now drive-thru?

Is anyone as fired up about these changes as I am? And if you are are, do you ever sit back and realize that they have little to no effect on 95 percent on the population?

Re: AP Style nerds

  • The e-mail one is driving me crazy, because I do it with the -. 

    Maybe that can be my t-shirt slogan. I DO IT with a - 

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  • I knew about email but not drive-thru! I've actually changed e-mail to email in a document a few times just today! Haha :) (I work in PR)
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  • imageRoni.Cedra:

    The e-mail one is driving me crazy, because I do it with the -. 

    Maybe that can be my t-shirt slogan. I DO IT with a - 

    I want one!

  • Does that mean "e-mail" is incorrect now according to AP style, or just that "email" is another option?
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  • imageRock-n-Voll:
    Does that mean "e-mail" is incorrect now according to AP style, or just that "email" is another option?

    E-mail is incorrect now. All references should be "email."

  • imagesmbsantacruz:

    imageRock-n-Voll:
    Does that mean "e-mail" is incorrect now according to AP style, or just that "email" is another option?

    E-mail is incorrect now. All references should be "email."

    I am so not on board with this.

    I'd rather be rock climbing or playing volleyball
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  • imageRock-n-Voll:
    imagesmbsantacruz:

    imageRock-n-Voll:
    Does that mean "e-mail" is incorrect now according to AP style, or just that "email" is another option?

    E-mail is incorrect now. All references should be "email."

    I am so not on board with this.

    For what it's worth, e-reader, e-media, e-books, e-publishing, etc., still have the hyphen. 

    But I know ... it sort of makes my teeth hurt, too. Don't even get me started on the sheer laziness of "drive-thru."

  • "Email" has been "email" in my world for probably the past 6 years. Guess we were ahead of the official trend... I remember when the official user study came out and we had to go through and update ever instance of it online. That was a pain. Heh.

    Drive-thru. Yeah. That one's weird.

  • imageangelabbf:

    "Email" has been "email" in my world for probably the past 6 years. Guess we were ahead of the official trend...

    LMAO, because in my world, "ahead of the official trend" is great spin for "wrong." Smile

  • AP Style nerd here!!   Geeked

    I am very excited about the change to "email." I was ecstatic about "Web site" becoming "website." I am puzzled though by the change from "Calcutta" to "Kolkata."

  • imagesm23:

    AP Style nerd here!!   Geeked

    I am very excited about the change to "email." I was ecstatic about "Web site" becoming "website." I am puzzled though by the change from "Calcutta" to "Kolkata."

    Calcutta was what it was called by the British, I believe. Kolkata was the original name so they've just gone back to that. Same reason why Bombay is now Mumbai and Madras is now Chennai (though those two aren't even close, so there must be more to the story).
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  • imageZoeMay06:
    imagesm23:

    AP Style nerd here!!   Geeked

    I am very excited about the change to "email." I was ecstatic about "Web site" becoming "website." I am puzzled though by the change from "Calcutta" to "Kolkata."

    Calcutta was what it was called by the British, I believe. Kolkata was the original name so they've just gone back to that. Same reason why Bombay is now Mumbai and Madras is now Chennai (though those two aren't even close, so there must be more to the story).

    Good to know. I wonder why it took so long for them to change it.

  • I hadn't heard about drive-thru. That's horrible.

    I love email though, because seriously does anyone ever really think of it as an abbreviation for electronic mail anymore?

    Smartphone I like (my God, I've wrestled with that one so many times lately!) but cellphone as one word seems kinda odd to me. 

    I like changes that make us not look like we're living in the stone age and have readers thinking we're wrong. Like capitalizing internet? Puh-leeze, stupit.

    My favorite place on earth: The Amargosa Valley.
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  • "thru" is not a word. Annoying.
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  • imageEmmieB:
    "thru" is not a word. Annoying.

    that's what i was gonna say....

  • imagesmbsantacruz:
    imageangelabbf:

    "Email" has been "email" in my world for probably the past 6 years. Guess we were ahead of the official trend...

    LMAO, because in my world, "ahead of the official trend" is great spin for "wrong." Smile

    haha. Totally. And I'm sure we paid big bucks to figure out what 'people' were calling it and doing at the time. Cracks me up.

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