From: Ted Dennison<dennison@telepath.com>
Subject: Re: Caselessness...
Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2001 14:41:56 GMT
Date: 2001-10-17T14:41:56+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <UMgz7.32737$ev2.39304@www.newsranger.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: rc8z7.5446$SU2.573487@newsread1.prod.itd.earthlink.net
In article <rc8z7.5446$SU2.573487@newsread1.prod.itd.earthlink.net>, David Brown
says...
>
>AFIK, the English language only has one pair of words that can be
>distinguished by case: August (the month), and august (marked by
>majestic dignity or grandeur). Since one is a noun, and the other is an
>adjective, I would have a hard time seeing them used in a conflicting
>way. The adjective variant is not used frequently in English anyway.
If you throw in acronyms, there are oodles of them. For instance, mad (angry or
insane) and MAD (the defensive philosophy of mutually-assured destruction,
perhaps also insane but often effective). Of course the relevant example here is
ADA (acronym for American Dental Association, Americans with Disabilities Act,
and many many more) and Ada (the name of many people, a city in Oklahoma, and
the world's best programming language).
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Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-10-15 18:50 Caselessness FGD
2001-10-15 19:09 ` Caselessness Marin David Condic
2001-10-15 19:51 ` Caselessness FGD
2001-10-15 20:41 ` Caselessness Marin David Condic
2001-10-15 20:15 ` Caselessness David Starner
2001-10-15 20:16 ` Caselessness Ted Dennison
2001-10-15 23:19 ` Caselessness Jeffrey Carter
2001-10-16 0:10 ` Caselessness Al Christians
2001-10-16 11:10 ` Caselessness Peter Hend�n
2001-10-16 15:59 ` Caselessness Jeffrey Carter
2001-10-16 18:44 ` Caselessness Al Christians
2001-10-17 4:56 ` Caselessness David Brown
2001-10-17 5:13 ` Caselessness David Starner
2001-10-17 14:41 ` Ted Dennison [this message]
2001-10-17 15:48 ` Caselessness Philip Anderson
2001-10-17 16:55 ` Caselessness Ted Dennison
2001-10-17 18:23 ` Caselessness Darren New
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