Undoubtedly, e-mail's speed, immediacy, and convenience has changed the form of correspondence for those who have it. But equally noteworthy is the way e-mail has changed the tone and style of written communication. I also accept as well as make many more typos and smaller editing errors while on e-mail than I do in paper prose. The nearly instantaneous nature of electronic mail has also led many people to treat e-mail messages more as a form of conversation than as formal prose. Even the vocabulary has been reshaped by e-mail.
Sentences sometimes take on a telegraphic quality, with pronouns and conjunctions left out.
Maybe not, at least as traditionalists would recognize it. Even many e-mail enthusiasts agree that when one wants to get serious with one's thoughts, there is no substitute for writing on paper. But it is already clear that a new form of written English is slowly emerging. Quite possibly, our grandchildren will have to study e-grammar as well as standard grammar in school. And because he was on vacation last week, the draft of the article arrived from Sandy's home computer to the office computer . . .