You're right. Instead, they should keep playing Born in the USA thousands of times each day, because it doesn't matter what the song really says, only the part of the song that everyone remembers. And clearly any song with a mention of jets or flying is evil. While we're at it we'll have to ban all Jefferson Airplane songs because the name of the band is just plain insensitive.
A little consideration suggests to me that the only reason anyone would choose to use email over e-mail is that it obviates reaching for the "-" key. Would you consider abbreviating post office with poffice. I think not. In fact, the only reason it is even possible to use email is that electronic starts with a vowel and mail happens to start with a consonant. Any other combination would result in pronunciation that didn't make sense, whereas with a hyphen there is no ambiguity. So you can go on dropping the separator since everyone else does, but don't think it makes any sense.
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You're right. Instead, they should keep playing Born in the USA thousands of times each day, because it doesn't matter what the song really says, only the part of the song that everyone remembers. And clearly any song with a mention of jets or flying is evil. While we're at it we'll have to ban all Jefferson Airplane songs because the name of the band is just plain insensitive.
A little consideration suggests to me that the only reason anyone would choose to use email over e-mail is that it obviates reaching for the "-" key. Would you consider abbreviating post office with poffice. I think not. In fact, the only reason it is even possible to use email is that electronic starts with a vowel and mail happens to start with a consonant. Any other combination would result in pronunciation that didn't make sense, whereas with a hyphen there is no ambiguity. So you can go on dropping the separator since everyone else does, but don't think it makes any sense.