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e-writing

noun

Etymology

From e- + writing.

  1. derived from wrītan — “to scratch, carve, write”
  2. inherited from wrītende
  3. inherited from writinge
  4. formed as e-writing — “e- + writing”

Definitions

  1. The practice of writing texts in electronic form.

    • The author, David Siegel, notes that "documents are becoming applications" (vii), a statement that unintentionally sums up the nature of e-writing.
    • The permanence of e-writing is only a superficial impression. Although a single piece of text may be preserved throughout a thread of messages, via forwarding or replying to author, each screen incarnation gives it a different status […]

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for e-writing. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA