Re: OT: The joys of email (was: Re: CONLANG/ZBB crossover)

> [mailto:CONLANG@listserv.brown.edu] On Behalf Of Mark J. Reed
> Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2007 11:26
> To: CONLANG@listserv.brown.edu
> Subject: Re: OT: The joys of email (was: Re: CONLANG/ZBB crossover)
>
> On 5/9/07, taliesin the storyteller <taliesin-conlang@...> wrote:
> > Never thought it could be seen as latin at all, neat!
>
> Oh, yes.  many people think that RE: is short for REPLY or something,
> but it's actually from Latin RES ("thing").  It was originally the
> office-memo's equivalent of what in email is the Subject: header...
> what the memo is about, whether it's a reply or not.
For e-mail it is "reply", as opposed to "FWD" which is used for "forward". On
letters, "RE:" is supposed to be "regarding".

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