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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,66bc6b039f1e005d X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: John English Subject: Re: Case for case-sensitivity (Was: Three simple questions) Date: 2000/10/12 Message-ID: <39E580F2.3A0A0186@bton.ac.uk>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 680509965 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <2BED68CA963D6D55.A78776F656DA0452.75A61ED22116F1B6@lp.airnews.net> <39e2588f.21565740@news.demon.co.uk> <8rvnu2$8201@news.cis.okstate.edu> X-Accept-Language: en Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Complaints-To: news@bton.ac.uk X-Trace: saturn.bton.ac.uk 971342089 20709 193.62.183.204 (12 Oct 2000 09:14:49 GMT) Organization: University of Brighton Mime-Version: 1.0 NNTP-Posting-Date: 12 Oct 2000 09:14:49 GMT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 2000-10-12T09:14:49+00:00 List-Id: What a lot of bandwidth for three "simple" questions... As my final contribution to this debate, here is a counterexample of a sort from Mark Twain's essay, "The Awful German Language": "In German, all Nouns begin with a capital letter. Now that is a good idea; and a good idea, in this language, is necessarily conspicuous from its lonesomeness. I consider this capitalizing of nouns a good idea, because by reason of it you are almost always able to tell a noun the minute you see it. You fall into error occasionally, because you mistake the name of a person for the name of a thing, and waste a good deal of time trying to dig a meaning out of it. German names almost always do mean something, and this helps to deceive the student. I translated a passage one day, which said that "the infuriated tigress broke loose and utterly ate up the unfortunate fir-forest," (Tannenwald.) When I was girding up my loins to doubt this, I found out that Tannenwald, in this instance, was a man's name." :-) ----------------------------------------------------------------- John English | mailto:je@brighton.ac.uk Senior Lecturer | http://www.it.bton.ac.uk/staff/je Dept. of Computing | ** NON-PROFIT CD FOR CS STUDENTS ** University of Brighton | -- see http://burks.bton.ac.uk -----------------------------------------------------------------