Wednesday, January 26, 2005

Yoosij

Recently, I've come across increasingly common usage of the period in dates and phone numbers (1.26.05; 816.555.1212). Although I understand this is a common European usage, I've seen it more and more from my full-fledged Midwestern brethren. It seems like an attempt to be overly-cyber-hip to me (by the recent adopters) , but I still sort of like it. Both dates and phone numbers have lacked consistent standards of expression, and these usages do seem to make for a more consistent image with e-mail addresses. I still use slashes for dates and parentheses and hyphens for phone numbers, but perhaps it is time to change my style.

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