Talk:e-message

RFD discussion: January–March 2021

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e-message

I can find almost no real use of this word in English. Nothing in the (London) Times, New York Times, LA Times, or other online dictionaries. Nothing in Google Ngram. General Google search mostly finds programming code examples and brand names. There is one result from 2020 in Boston Globe. Two results from CNN, and one from the Washington Post, but all of these are from audio transcripts, and I'm not even sure they're right. This looks too little to me to be considered a stable dictionary entry. --Amir E. Aharoni (talk) 07:06, 18 January 2021 (UTC)

Keep of course. Three citations now added. Equinox ◑ 07:51, 18 January 2021 (UTC)

Keep, although there's no mention of synonyms. An email by another name? DonnanZ (talk) 09:55, 18 January 2021 (UTC)

I'd imagine it would also include instant messages, newsgroup postings, etc. etc. Equinox ◑ 09:59, 18 January 2021 (UTC)

• Keep; should have been sent to RFV rather than RFD. —Mahāgaja · talk 12:14, 18 January 2021 (UTC)
• It is a sum of parts, e- (“In an electronic or computerized form, often in association with the Internet”) + message. That's for RFD. Delete. Vox Sciurorum (talk) 13:08, 19 January 2021 (UTC)

• @Vox Sciurorum: Are you serious? What about all the other e- words like e-mail and e-business? Equinox ◑ 14:53, 19 January 2021 (UTC)

  E-mail is an alternative spelling of email which, being spelled without a hyphen, is not subject to the sum of parts rule. Vox Sciurorum (talk) 16:15, 19 January 2021 (UTC)

Despite email, emessage looks kinda wrong, but I notice the form eMessage is relatively common on Google. e- is a valid prefix anyway (whether E- or e- is used), so I don't see a problem with e-message. DonnanZ (talk) 16:34, 19 January 2021 (UTC)

Keep; On the Government website of the governor of Washington there is a page where it says "Send Gov. Inslee an e-message". --Gorec (talk) 09:07, 21 January 2021 (UTC)

Delete, as "hyphenated compound" (WT:CFI). (WT fails to differ between derivation and composition, which can also be seen in the single section "Derived terms" for both.) --幽霊四 (talk) 15:44, 24 January 2021 (UTC)

Delete. Imetsia (talk) 17:48, 8 February 2021 (UTC)

There are five separate e- prefixes. Yet an e-message is specifically only one of these things, the one that means "electronic". Equinox ◑ 18:30, 8 February 2021 (UTC)

• Keep — Dentonius 08:20, 19 February 2021 (UTC)
• RFD-kept. Not much consensus here, but more keep votes than delete and a possibility of COALMINE applying. —Μετάknowledge^{discuss/deeds} 08:12, 7 March 2021 (UTC)