If it's Good Enough for Wired...
Posted by Thomas J. Brown at 1038 hrs
"Standards do matter. The principles of good English are always relevant."
An article at Wired News by Tony Long touts the importance of using proper English when writing and, to a degree, lambastes the internet for not doing so all along. The article, along with another one I recently read by the same reporter, mention that Wired will (from the time of the articles' publication onward) spell 'e-mail' with a hyphen and 'internet' with a lowercase 'I'. If it's good enough for Wired, it's good enough for me. I agree with setting standards and Wired certainly has the clout needed to make this stick. So I intend to do my part to help standardize the language of the web.
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2 Comments
On 18 September 2004, Phoenix said:
Sigh. While e-hyphen-mail is correct (it's short for electronic-mail), lowercase-'i'nternet is not. An internet is _ANY_ set of networks
interconnected with routers. The capital-'I'nternet is the biggest example of an internet.
And you would think that Wired would have known this.
Nothing is wrong with setting standards, but if that is truly the goal, they should perhaps use the EXISTING standards. That's what makes them...STANDARD.
Sigh.
On 18 September 2004, Thomas J. Brown said:
Yes, but look at what you just said. "An internet" versus "the internet". Definite articles make it pretty clear what you're talking about.
On 7 January 2009, said: