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    Quote Originally Posted by Animeniax
    It is not being misused only because the current accepted use allows it to be used that way, same with words like "moot", 'irregardless", and "aluminum". But at it's root it is misuse.

    Funny you make the statement "e-mails takes properties of electronic-mail messages" but you don't say "electronic-mails" in that same sentence. Why? Probably because it sounds weird. Yet somehow "emails" is ok.

    I'd like to talk about this more, but I'm going to do some e-shoppings for furnitures on the onlines. It's a moot point irregardless.
    It's not suddenly accepted. An e-mail message has always been accepted as an e-mail and by extension, e-mail messages have always been accepted as e-mails. Always.

    Of course you don't use "electronic-mails messages" same way you don't say "these are practices balls". That's simple grammar.
    Last edited by Munsu; Tue, 07-07-2009 at 05:36 PM.

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