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in the sentence : letīs keep our correspondence only by email

is the sentence correct as correspondence is written letters? or the ord correspondence could have another meaning?

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"correspondence" is the action or fact of corresponding, and in the modern world I think e-mails can be regarded as written exchanges of information or opinion.

The sentence itself might be better expressed

# Let's keep our correspondence to e-mail

# Let's correspond by e-mail only
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"correspondence" is the action or fact of corresponding, and in the modern world I think e-mails can be regarded as written exchanges of information or opinion.

The sentence itself might be better expressed

# Let's keep our correspondence to e-mail

# Let's correspond by e-mail only

thank you so much !!!! the funny is who wrote the sentence is an academic. A linguist, thatīs why I thought that it could have another meaning.
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