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Posted by Charlie on 05/30/07 02:20
"Chris F.A. Johnson" <cfajohnson@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:fi3li4-ika.ln1@xword.teksavvy.com...
> On 2007-05-24, dorayme wrote:
>> In article <Xns9939EFE23AF09nanopandaneredbojias@208.49.80.251>,
>> Neredbojias <neredbojias@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> On Tue, 22 May 2007 21:18:04 GMT dorayme scribed:
>>>
>>> > In article <Xns993879DEAB4F8nanopandaneredbojias@208.49.80.251>,
>>> > Neredbojias <neredbojias@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> >
>>> >> Please don't so publicly capitalise
>>> >> > my name, it is a small "d".
>>> >>
>>> >> The only reason I did so was because it was part of a title and the
>>> >> first word to boot, so any word would have been therein capitalized.
>>> >>
>>> >
>>> > This is a bad reason. A name is not a word like the ones everyone
>>> > learns in order to speak.
>>>
>>> Then what word is it like? _Any_ word follows those rules, be it proper
>>> noun or anything else. Xhtml doesn't apply to English grammar.
>>
>> Since a name is not that much like other words,
>
> That _is_ the point. In the English language, names are capitalized.
>
> That's why e.e.cummings's business failed: it was under
> capitalized!
Actually, E.E. Cummings didn't use the all lower case form of his name.
Others did, but not he.
>
>> it is odd to ask what word is it like. Think how the normal rules
>> about capitalisation do not apply with names when they are used
>> within sentences (as contrasted with starting them). They mostly
>> remain capitalised! In other words, names are special, not like most
>> other words like "cat", "some", "you", "it". So your stated
>> objection to treat them like other words for the purpose of starting
>> sentences looks to me like very special pleading.
>
> Words that start a sentence _are_ capitalized, whether they are
> names or not.
>
>> If really pressed to say what a name is like, I suppose I might
>> say, at least, that a good name is like a good work of art,
>
> That is a signature, not merely a name.
>
>
> --
> Chris F.A. Johnson <http://cfaj.freeshell.org>
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