On Mon, 4 Sep 2017 09:10 am, Gregory Ewing wrote: > Stefan Ram wrote: >> But of >> course, actually the rules of orthography require "Maße" or >> "Masse" and do not allow "MASSE" or "MASZE", just as in >> English, "English" has to be written "English" and not >> "english" or "ENGLISH". > > While "english" is wrong in English, there's no rule > against using "ENGLISH" as an all-caps version.
It's not always wrong. If you're e.e. cummings, then you're allowed to avoid capitals. (If you're anyone else, you're either a derivative hack, or lazy.) And if you are referring to the spin applied to billiard balls, it is acceptable to write it as english. > Are you saying that all-caps text is not allowed in > German? If so, that's very different from English. Germans use ALLCAPS for headlines, book titles, emphasis etc just as English speakers do. For example: http://www.spiegel.de/politik/index.html -- Steve “Cheer up,” they said, “things could be worse.” So I cheered up, and sure enough, things got worse. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list