Re: [microsound] [ot] [politics] Bush coached by WiFi in recentdebate?

[Richard Zvonar <zvonar@xxxxxxxxxx>]

At 12:19 PM -0400 10/13/04, Jonathan Hughes wrote:

> I may be wrong, but I think you'd be hard pressed to find someone these
> days who refers to anything other than the Internet (capital I) as an/the
> internet (lowercase i). I would think that LAN and WAN would be the terms
> of choice.

I think you're right. The generic use of "internet" (lower case) is 
now mostly historic, though the capitalization of the global version 
remains preferred usages (as does Web, though this is fading).


> 2. Someone to come up with a better name than "intranet." I love how
> everyone (myself included) is forced to pronounce it inTRAnet to make it
> clear that they aren't talking about the inTERnet.

A sad comment on the state of pronunciation. Even professional 
speakers, such as radio and television news readers are guilty of 
sloppy and incorrect performance.
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