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 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,aa554b78fbc1aa13 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-01-08 09:01:46 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.online.be!195.129.110.18.MISMATCH!bnewspeer00.bru.ops.eu.uu.net!emea.uu.net!newsfeed.siemens.de!news.siemens.de!news.mch.sbs.de!not-for-mail From: Alfred Hilscher Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Games? A Newbie question Date: Tue, 08 Jan 2002 18:01:40 +0100 Organization: Siemens AG Message-ID: <3C3B25F4.E96F196E@icn.siemens.de> References: <98104da8.0112280502.7e0addf3@posting.google.com> <98104da8.0112290447.45934efd@posting.google.com> <%t2Y7.39$wp1.63@www.newsranger.com> <3C3AB947.971E14AB@icn.siemens.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: 139.21.122.158 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (WinNT; I) X-Accept-Language: en Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:18651 Date: 2002-01-08T18:01:40+01:00 List-Id: Ted Dennison wrote: > >I took a look on Amazon and found: > > This is actually a stellar example of the principle. You show some examples > where it is capitalized *correctly* on the book, but incorrectly in Amazon's > title. Ok, you're right. But - wheter it's wrong spelled on a website or on the teachers script, both can lead one to the assumption that it's spelled "ADA". > Further examples where other words that are clearly not acronyms are also all > caps. I can't take these as examples becuase its clear in each case from context > that everything is being capitalized. Yes, one who _does_ know that it's a name would never star to write "ADA", but one who _doesn't_ know has no reason to think that this special word must not be capitalized. > >http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0130040789/qid=1010480464/br=1-8/ref=br_lf_b_8/002-9221151-1373622 > > Wow. This indeed is an actual example where they got the name wrong. I've never > heard of or seen this book before, but it apparently does exist. Interestingly, > Amazon got it right in their rendition of the book's title. :-) I've looked only for enghlish/american books, but I remember my first (german) book had also a "ADA" title. > because its in "the library". This is most likely just several more examples of > people who don't know the language capitalizing it "ADA" for no apparent reason. WYSIWYW = What you see is what you write (as long as you don't know it better) > examples where Amamzon insisted on "ADA" anyway. I think its clear that book > covers cannot be blamed. What about this, people search for "Ada" and find "ADA Americans with Disabilities Act ". They think - "Wow what has this to do with programming of reliable software?" Or "ADA - American Dental Association" - wow, dentists are the real programmers? > --- > T.E.D. homepage - http://www.telepath.com/dennison/Ted/TED.html > > No trees were killed in the sending of this message. Really? Maybe the electrons come from a coal-fired power station which blows a lot of sulfur up into atmosphere ;-) > However a large number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced.