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=0.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,TO_NO_BRKTS_FROM_MSSP autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,87555f9f9a68a23a X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-10-17 07:42:29 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsfeed.berkeley.edu!news-hog.berkeley.edu!ucberkeley!nntp-relay.ihug.net!ihug.co.nz!out.nntp.be!propagator-SanJose!in.nntp.be!newsranger.com!www.newsranger.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada From: Ted Dennison References: <3BCB2FDA.8060807@look.ca> Subject: Re: Caselessness... Message-ID: X-Abuse-Info: When contacting newsranger.com regarding abuse please X-Abuse-Info: forward the entire news article including headers or X-Abuse-Info: else we will not be able to process your request X-Complaints-To: abuse@newsranger.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2001 10:41:56 EDT Organization: http://www.newsranger.com Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2001 14:41:56 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:14813 Date: 2001-10-17T14:41:56+00:00 List-Id: In article , 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). --- T.E.D. homepage - http://www.telepath.com/dennison/Ted/TED.html No trees were killed in the sending of this message. However a large number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced.