Thursday, November 17, 2005

Apparently the proverb "A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle" was invented on a bathroom wall in Australia in 1970. Which goes to show: any medium will do if it's the right sentiment.

I am still waiting for my neologism "eddress" (for email address) to catch on...

UPDATE: Which I see someone else claims to have invented in 1995. Anyway, it's a good word.

RE-UPDATE: Which I see someone else used in 1991. And Esther Dyson is using it now, so it should catch on. I may possibly have been the first to use it in a book, though -- someone's cited my usage in Crafty Screenwriting.

10:28 AM

2 Comments:

I dunno 'bout "eddress." It's not shorter than "address," it looks like a typo, and it sounds like you have a speech defect. People tend to say, "What's your email?" Shorter than "edress," same number of syllables, and hard to misunderstand.

By  Will Shetterly, at 5:36 PM  

Because the spambots can get around logins. I turned it off for a moment there and immediately had spam.

By  Alex Epstein, at 12:07 PM  

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