Web site VS. website..
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- Recoil2k20
website
email
- flatulence0
it goes like this, have a style guide for your grammar (if you use APA, etc, these things are already determined). Follow that style guide and be consistent. Here are some helpful links:
http://www.webgrammar.com/gramma…
Web site vs. website:
http://www.netlingo.com/right.cf…e-mail or email:
http://www.netlingo.com/right.cf…
- xrusos0
albeit cyber "places" - they are places nonetheless.
another interesting take is to use Web in Web site, but web in web design - because Web site is referring to a place (like Chicago), whereas, web design is a medium, like painting... don't know what i think about that. but an interesting alternative.
- ********0
can be both...look it up in the dictionary
- letgo™0
website
email
- sauerbraten0
web design SHOULD be written Web design, we're talking about designing stuff for the Web, not webs.. ie; spider webs, etc.
i see a huge phat difference here.
- sauerbraten0
i think the issue here is what is proper and what is familiar.
i for one don't care if it's spelled website or Web site, i use website when i'm just writing stuff on here, but for proper use in published work there should be a standard.
but if that standard is determined should we not all adopt that cause it's correct?
- monkeyshine0
The dictionary says either website or Web site
- unformatted0
website
E-mail
- whiteSneaks0
i think the paragraph in the dictionary explains it quite well. living languages can be what we want them to be
"The transition from World Wide Web site to Web site to website seems to have progressed as rapidly as the technology itself. The development of website as a single uncapitalized word mirrors the development of other technological expressions which have tended to evolve into unhyphenated forms as they become more familiar. Thus email has recently been gaining ground over the forms E-mail and e-mail, especially in texts that are more technologically oriented. Similarly, there has been an increasing preference for closed forms like homepage, online, and printout."
- sauerbraten0
nice sneaks. i think we should goto an all lowercase language anyway.
- mrdobolina0
tyrone, I dont personally know this dude, but my homeboy who owns the bmx shop said someone offered him 3500 for it w/ fork and he said it wasnt for sale.
I guess it still has the plastic over the decals and shit. its in the original plastic bag inside of the box also. wow.
- Recycle0
Personally, when I see someone write 'E-mail' or 'e-mail' I assume they are an older adult who does not use computers on a regular basis.
When I see 'eMail' I assume it's written by some geek in MC Hammer pants trying to be cool.
I think that most people who use it write 'email'.
As for the other, I would say that I've seen 'website' most consistently. As proper as it may be, the web does not care whether or not you respect it with a capital W.
Of course, 3m41L and w3b s1t3 work for some people.
- Peter0
Stolen...I mean "shared"...from Newstodays Folkert
http://www.superfamous.com/dev.h…Web sites
The transition from "World Wide Web site" to "Web site" to "website" seems to have progressed as rapidly as the technology itself. The development of "website" as a single uncapitalized word mirrors the development of other technological expressions which have tended to evolve into unhyphenated forms as they become more familiar.
- sauerbraten0
peter, sneaks pimped you on that one. sorry.
- Peter0
No need to be sorry ;)
- unknown0
webshit
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