Emails certainly take on the idea of previous communication methods. They are written in a certain way, often formally when it is business related, and conversationalist when it is too a friend. Emails appeal to a vast majority of people as they follow on from a previous form, which enables people to pick this up easily. The only change in language has resulted by consequence of 'text' talk from mobile phones. But, in relation to Bolter and Grusin's theory of remediation, new media forms certainly take on a previous form and adapt into what is percieved as 'new'.