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View Poll Results: How should we spell "ebook"? | |||
ebook | 56 | 50.00% | |
e-book | 25 | 22.32% | |
eBook | 31 | 27.68% | |
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03-18-2008, 01:23 PM | #61 |
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On the web? Not likely. And doing it any other way is a job for an academic scholar, which I make no claims to being (though I am quite proud of my Marital B.S. in Victorian Literature ).
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03-18-2008, 01:52 PM | #62 | |
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03-18-2008, 02:09 PM | #63 |
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Thanks, Dale.
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03-18-2008, 02:20 PM | #64 |
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That's moving in on a fairly definitive answer then.
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03-18-2008, 04:21 PM | #65 |
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who *is* this man ? i want to buy him (several) drinks and just let him ramble on about whatever passes through his head. thank god he has a blog (and that's something i don't say very often).
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03-18-2008, 05:08 PM | #66 |
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03-22-2008, 07:43 PM | #67 |
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English is the mentally-deficient offspring of cousins.
Yes, Old English (think: Beowulf) was Germanic. Germanic languages are one branch of the Indo-European family of languages. Another branch contains Latin and it's derivatives, including French. Germanic languages and Romance languages are thus cousins. At the Norman Conquest of England in 1066, the Old English language was forcibly raped by it's aggressive cousin, and what we today call English is the awkward result of that unholy union. Since the conquerors imposed their language, the Latinate terms came to be viewed as the "fancier" terms, while the Germanic terms came to be considered more "common". We still speak both languages, which is why we have cars and automobiles. (Don't confuse this with the current attack on "reader" by "liseuse" - that's an Australian thing.) Last edited by Taylor514ce; 03-22-2008 at 11:42 PM. |
03-22-2008, 11:40 PM | #68 |
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Both languages. I speak American, the only language this world needs. Sadly, seems like the good god-fearing language of Amurrica is besieged by threats coming from all four sides of our wonderful planet.
I thought guys named 'Norman' were mostly milquetoast bean-counters--how did they conquer an entire country? |
03-22-2008, 11:57 PM | #69 |
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I say ebook. I don't like using a hyphen unless absolutely necessary. I don't like the eBook method because looks too much like eBay, like a web 2.0 way of spelling stuff.
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04-03-2008, 09:37 PM | #70 |
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then again how about iEbook? Of course these would be the Apple versions of ebook.
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04-04-2008, 08:00 AM | #71 |
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09-30-2008, 12:58 PM | #74 |
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ebook and pbook (thus capitalized ).
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10-03-2008, 08:50 AM | #75 |
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Never one to miss a chance to waste my time and vote in useless polls I was drawn irresistibly to this thread and thought I'd contribute by seeing what Google says.
So I googled "ebook" and the entries it came up with in order were: 1. eBook 2. E-book 3. e-book 4. ebook and then I saw the magic phrase "free ebooks" and got distracted, cos if they're free, I don't care how you spell it. And I've just noticed that my Firefox spellchecker marks nos 2 and 3 above as correct, and 1 and 4 as wrong. So that probably does prove that William the Conqueror's real name was Norman. Though of course all his colleagues called him William the B**tard. Not a lot of people know that. |
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