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Telelogy

September 11, 2009 - 3:01pm — matt (not verified)

John and I were organizing some content and needed to come up with an umbrella term for email, instant messaging, and possibly cell-phone texting - all electronic communication via the transmission of text.

"Telephony"is a word that refers to telephones specifically, and sound communication in general ("tele" = 'Distant'; "phonos" = 'Voice').

And "Telegraphy" means communication by writing over distance, but usually refers to the specific technology of the telegraph.

So I suggested we call the category, "Telelogy" ("logos" = 'Word').
We did a search and nothing came up, other than sites devoted to "Teleology" (The study of causation and purpose) that had "teleology" misspelled as "telelogy".

So I guess we coined a word. Whether anyone would every use it, I don't know.