5 Oct
2011
5 Oct
'11
4:50 p.m.
> There are, however SOME language rules that I
CHOOSE to flagrantly break.
On Wed, 5 Oct 2011, Tony Duell wrote:
I also refuse to capitalise something that can never
be capitalised, even
at the start of a sentence. Things like variable names, unix commands,
etc. Of course it's best not to start a sentence with something like
that, but...
Example: The sentence:
Scanf() and fscanf() (especially scanf() are "trustworthy."
Is just plain WRONG in every meaningful way.
And, we mustn't forget that Tony can see the colour grey, when all
that I can see is a gray color. That doesn't make me an arsehole,
because that's spellled differently here.
There are also some words that have different levels of impact in
different cultures. "Wanker" is barely risque in USA.
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Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin at xenosoft.com