Re: First known use of the word, email (1978)

2012-11-28 Thread N. Ganesan
On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 7:39 PM, Philippe Verdy verd...@wanadoo.fr wrote: On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 5:53 AM, Clive Hohberger cp...@case.edu wrote: BTW, the routine capitalization of 'E' in E-mail came in the 1990's from William Safire's On Language column in the NY Times newspaper: He made

Re: First known use of the word, email (1978)

2012-11-28 Thread Doug Ewell
N. Ganesan wrote: On Shiva Aiyadurai's first use of the term in 1978, email for networked electronic messages, apparently Indians and lexicographers do care to know. And the connection to Unicode is... what? -- Doug Ewell | Thornton, Colorado, USA http://www.ewellic.org | @DougEwell ­

Re: First known use of the word, email (1978)

2012-11-27 Thread Clive Hohberger
You might want to look at Wikipedia entry E-mail. There was a formal timeshare messaging system: 1978 – EMAIL at University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jerseyhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Medicine_and_Dentistry_of_New_Jersey [36] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-mail#cite_note-37

Re: First known use of the word, email (1978)

2012-11-27 Thread John D. Burger
What has this to do with Unicode??? - John Burger MITRE On Nov 27, 2012, at 05:14 , N. Ganesan wrote: There are interviews in Tamil and English language media about V. A. Shiva Ayyadurai and his work in high school and later with respect to electronic mail. A statement issued by MIT

Re: First known use of the word, email (1978)

2012-11-27 Thread Michael Everson
On 27 Nov 2012, at 14:31, John D. Burger j...@mitre.org wrote: What has this to do with Unicode??? u+1F4E7 U+1F455 Michael Everson * http://www.evertype.com/

Re: First known use of the word, email (1978)

2012-11-27 Thread Michael Everson
On 27 Nov 2012, at 13:53, Clive Hohberger cp...@case.edu wrote: BTW, the routine capitalization of 'E' in E-mail came in the 1990's from William Safire's On Language column in the NY Times newspaper: He made the analogy with T-shirt. The T in T-shirt is capitalized because of the shape of

RE: First known use of the word, email (1978)

2012-11-27 Thread Joe
German scholars have traced it back at least to the early Middle Ages: Email im frühen Mittelalter von Günther Haseloff http://books.google.com/books/about/Email_im_frühen_Mittelalter.html?id=H7RJAQAAIAAJ Jo(k)e

Re: First known use of the word, email (1978)

2012-11-27 Thread Clive Hohberger
In modern German, it means enamel 2012/11/27 Joe j...@unicode.org German scholars have traced it back at least to the early Middle Ages: Email im frühen Mittelalter von Günther Haseloff http://books.google.com/books/about/Email_im_frühen_Mittelalter.html?id=H7RJAQAAIAAJ

Re: First known use of the word, email (1978)

2012-11-27 Thread N. Ganesan
On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 5:53 AM, Clive Hohberger cp...@case.edu wrote: You might want to look at Wikipedia entry E-mail. There was a formal timeshare messaging system: 1978 – EMAIL at University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey[36] This is Shiva Ayyadurai's program written in 1978.

Re: First known use of the word, email (1978)

2012-11-27 Thread Doug Ewell
: First known use of the word, email (1978) On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 5:53 AM, Clive Hohberger cp...@case.edu wrote: You might want to look at Wikipedia entry E-mail. There was a formal timeshare messaging system: 1978 – EMAIL at University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey[36

Re: First known use of the word, email (1978)

2012-11-27 Thread Philippe Verdy
On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 5:53 AM, Clive Hohberger cp...@case.edu wrote: BTW, the routine capitalization of 'E' in E-mail came in the 1990's from William Safire's On Language column in the NY Times newspaper: He made the analogy with T-shirt Is this capitalisation of T-shirt mandatory ? (of

Re: First known use of the word, email (1978)

2012-11-27 Thread Doug Ewell
Philippe Verdy wrote: Is this capitalisation of T-shirt mandatory ? (of course the shape of the letter recalls the shape of the suit) I've seen frequently t-shirt (sometimes tee-shirt as well) when the term was lexicalized, with a clear pronunciation and understanding by itself, without