Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4570 mails)

["Steven T. Hatton" <hattons@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Friday 18 November 2005 08:37 pm, Darryl Gregorash wrote:
> 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>

I have seriously wondered howmany times the expression "stupid Americans" was 
used when discussing the name change.

Steven