On Wednesday 16 November 2005 07:45 pm, Anders Johansson wrote:
Steven T. Hatton wrote:
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.
Oh stop it. It changed before Novell was involved
And I fail to see how "Software und System Entwicklung" has anything to do with the German language. If anything, that is the insult, not SUSE
But why do we keep getting these off topic threads?
When I was setting up a database system intended to be used by all DoD personnell, I had the choice of entering either DOD, dod, or DoD. I entered DoD, because I have respect for my own language. Steven