A blog on the idiosyncrasies of today’s fast-moving, social-media-driven language managed by 20-year-plus public relations writer Joseph Priest. l write “e-mail” with a hyphen, detest the word “issue,” and abbreviate “microphone” as “mike.” Got a language question? Bring it on.
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Generation Gap
Many people seem to be one generation removed when it comes to writing the names of people born from 1981 to 1996 and people born from 1997 to 2013.