Email is another topic of interest / rants for me. Few things have had such a great impact on the modern way of life as email and yet we still can't even agree on the term to use! Being a unix user, I was educated early on in how to use email correctly which involved a whole ettiquette (or should that be nettiquette?). This involved not topposting and quoting correctly. It seems that increasingly few people that use email have any idea on how to post so that their message is conveyed as legibly as possible, resulting in a mismatch of horrid text, formatted in all kinds of ways and entire messages quoted, when really all that was relevant was a line or two.
Reading through my inbox this morning I wonder if in my role as security admin I can enforce a policy on how to email :)
re: http://www.disciplina.net/musings/emails
ReplyDeleteplurals/collective nouns: a sheep and some sheep
But on bad grammar: it's wrong to say "data is", it's "data are". Because it's "a datum" not "a data".