On Wed, 1 Sep 1999, mthawley wrote:
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> Rick Moen wrote:
<schnipp, schnapp>
> > 7. (Throughout the Web site:) You have "web" in lower case. However,
> > it's short for "World-Wide Web", and is a proper noun.
>
> Is it ? Many words are getting 'proper' status because they are being used to
> mean one thing in particular but this is a result of advertising and
> marketing people influening very recent english . It is also the reason the
> word Windows is a trademark even though I have twenty of them in my house
> that are older than M$ by about 40 years .
Just capitalize all Nouns and solve this Problem alltogether. Ich spreche
Deutsch :). It makes the Language so much easier to read...
ciao,
der.hans
> > While I'm at it.... You guys can use some copy-editing in a whole lot
> > of small areas:
> >
> > 8. (From http://www.linuxdemo.org/staff.shtml:) "He is also the
> > maintainer of the french web site." "French" is a proper noun. Ditto
> > for "spanish" and "german", below.)
<schnipp, schnapp>
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> > Rick Moen Potestatem capite!
> > rick (at) linuxmafia.com
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