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=0.2 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC 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: dvdeug@x8b4e516e.dhcp.okstate.edu (David Starner) Subject: Re: Three simple questions Date: 2000/10/16 Message-ID: <8sf2k7$7pu1@news.cis.okstate.edu>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 682079058 References: <2BED68CA963D6D55.A78776F656DA0452.75A61ED22116F1B6@lp.airnews.net> <39E47BAC.8DB1AD0B@acm.org> <39E71FF3.E4408743@acm.org> <39E73FA4.6BDDF821@ftw.rsc.raytheon.com> <39EAEEEA.4F58C47C@cepsz.unizar.es> Organization: Oklahoma State University User-Agent: slrn/0.9.6.2 (Linux) Reply-To: dstarner98@aasaa.ofe.org Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 2000-10-16T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: On Mon, 16 Oct 2000 14:04:58 +0200, Alejandro Villanueva wrote: >Wes Groleau wrote: > >> > > And then of course there's "polish" vs. "Polish". >> >> And in order to avoid confusion, capitalization rules are >> suspended when the word starts a sentence. >> >> "polish the silver." NEVER "Polish the silver." >> > >Wops! Are you saying that "polish the silver." is a correct sentence in >English??? I've always thought that you MUST write the very first letter >in a sentence in caps!!! Or so I've always heard. I think he was being sarcastic, because if he wasn't, he's just wrong. Standard English always requires a capital letter to start the sentence. (Hacker English, on the other hand, demands that words with intrinsic casing (gcc and GCC, for example) keep that casing even at the start of a sentence.) -- David Starner - dstarner98@aasaa.ofe.org http://dvdeug.dhis.org If you wish to strive for peace of soul then believe; if you wish to be a devotee of truth, then inquire. -- Friedrich Nietzsche