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Re: [SLE] It's SuSE not SUSE
- From: Darryl Gregorash <raven@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2005 01:37:49 +0000 (UTC)
- Message-id: <437E81E9.1040708@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
On 11/16/2005 11:58 PM, jfweber@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>On Wednesday 16 November 2005 4:02 am, Steven T. Hatton wrote:
>
>
><snip!>
>
>>Yes, but I really meant the fact that typing SuSE required just a bit
>>of extra effort to get it right. And there is a reason behind having
>>the lower-case 'u'. It is, IMO, an insult to the German language to
>>ignore that detail. I could be wrong, but I suspect SUSE is an
>>Americanism. I am quite proud of my 31+ decades of American
>>ancestry, but this tendency to "normalize" every nuance of a foreign
>>culture is utterly offensive.
>>
>>
> Steven,
>The USA didn't do it, SUSE, the company you are trying to enforce your
>ideas of proper usage upon, did it. They likely had good and sufficient
>reasons for doing it.
Probably too many Americans were confused about the switch *back* to
caps *after* the "u".
<ducking/running>
>On Wednesday 16 November 2005 4:02 am, Steven T. Hatton wrote:
>
>
><snip!>
>
>>Yes, but I really meant the fact that typing SuSE required just a bit
>>of extra effort to get it right. And there is a reason behind having
>>the lower-case 'u'. It is, IMO, an insult to the German language to
>>ignore that detail. I could be wrong, but I suspect SUSE is an
>>Americanism. I am quite proud of my 31+ decades of American
>>ancestry, but this tendency to "normalize" every nuance of a foreign
>>culture is utterly offensive.
>>
>>
> Steven,
>The USA didn't do it, SUSE, the company you are trying to enforce your
>ideas of proper usage upon, did it. They likely had good and sufficient
>reasons for doing it.
Probably too many Americans were confused about the switch *back* to
caps *after* the "u".
<ducking/running>
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