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RE: [microsound] [ot] [politics] "that internet thing"



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> -----Original Message-----
> From: chthonic streams [mailto:chthonic@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: Friday, October 15, 2004 11:14 AM
> To: microsound
> Subject: Re: [microsound] [ot] [politics] "that internet thing"
> 
> 
> >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).
> 
> unfortunately not with proofreaders and copy editors.  they also 
> insist on referring to this mode of communication as "E-mail".
> 
> 
> d.
> 
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