19 Jan
2003
19 Jan
'03
3:53 p.m.
You can enter "american" in a search but all reponses will respond corrected
with "American."
Please provide a link to it otherwise.
Maybe Unix shouldn't take the full blame for this liberalization in the use or
lack thereof of
capiatlization of words; but what is clear is that just because the ASCII
presentation of
letters for uppercase and lowercase differ by one bit we have a tendancy to
lose the
distinction of word(s) meaning based upon capitalization. I think that English
teachers need to
address this in a neo technical world.
Eric, just because a search engine doesn't kick back "american" as wrong
doesn't make it's
lower case spelling right.
Eric
Eric Smith wrote:
"American" is always capitalized.
Of about seven dictionaries I've now checked, four online and three paper,
four do not always capitalize "american". It is clear that
"american"
is not always capitalized.