Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4570 mails)

["Dennis J. Tuchler" <dennis.tuchler@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Allen wrote:

> On Mon, Nov 21, 2005 at 08:37:22PM -0700, steve nutt wrote:
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> > Really:
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> > This is a pedantic agreement with overtones of idiotism. I say at least it
> > is in the ball park. Get a life!!!!!!!!!!!! Say something worth saying.
> >    
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> Really:
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> Quit top posting.
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> > Steve
> >    
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> -Allen
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> > ****************Original Message*************************
> > On 11/16/2005 11:58 PM, jfweber@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
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> > > 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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> All americans are dumb huh?
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No, they (like most other people in the world) just don't capitalize 
nouns like the Germans do.

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Best regards,

Dennis J. Tuchler
University City, Missouri 63130
USA