From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,8d472879e3f609e0 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-06-03 23:21:49 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!arclight.uoregon.edu!wn13feed!worldnet.att.net!199.45.49.37!cyclone1.gnilink.net!spamkiller2.gnilink.net!nwrdny01.gnilink.net.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail From: Hyman Rosen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.5a) Gecko/20030603 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Case sensitivity (was Re: no title) References: <0vGdnQFmVPoZj0Gj4p2dnA@gbronline.com> <1054647054.761122@master.nyc.kbcfp.com> <1054651042.211055@master.nyc.kbcfp.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <0egDa.45243$fT5.9340@nwrdny01.gnilink.net> Date: Wed, 04 Jun 2003 06:21:48 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 68.161.243.219 X-Complaints-To: abuse@verizon.net X-Trace: nwrdny01.gnilink.net 1054707708 68.161.243.219 (Wed, 04 Jun 2003 02:21:48 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 04 Jun 2003 02:21:48 EDT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:38569 Date: 2003-06-04T06:21:48+00:00 List-Id: James Rogers wrote: > In English the meaning of words does not change because of case. That is not true, since English encompasses proper nouns. The words "Polish" and "polish" are quite different. Also, written English, especially technical writing, can include capitalized acronyms which mean something different than the equivalent lower case word. And do I have to remind you how often people on this newsgroup complain when they see someone refer to ADA instead of Ada?