[GTALUG] Old and New Habits...

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On Sat, Aug 10, 2024 at 7:17 PM Ron / BCLUG via talk <talk at gtalug.org> wrote:
>
> Peter King via talk wrote on 2024-08-10 16:02:
>
> > The discussion was inconclusive, to say the least, and I thought (and
> >  think!) that we should respect case and punctuation.
>
> Generally, I agree.
>
> Just today I subscribed to a podcast by someone who's podcast work I
> quite like, only to see that absolutely no capitalization is used on
> episode titles, even for proper nouns like "Boston".
>
> FFS, I just might unsubscribe.
>
> I hate this trend where it's "cool" to eschew capitalization, or even
> worse, to skip it at sentence beginnings, but use it in, say, "CPU".
>
> WTF?  It's worse than the old-timers writing all-caps back in the early
> '90s ("Stop shouting!")
>
>
> > But I certainly hadn't considered the arguments against it...
>
> When it comes to email, it'd be a huge flaw to allow me to sign up as
> PeterKing at gmail.com when you've already got peterking at gmail.com
>
> Email addresses are, as I understand it, folded to lower-case for
> handling and that makes sense.
>
>
>
> > Thoughts?  Experiences with gmail?  Reflections on generational
> > differences in the approach to computing?
>
> I've already ranted about lower-case everything, I'd best refrain from
> starting on about emoji, "LOL" as punctuation, etc. -- those aren't even
> generational. If anything, they're more popular amongst the oldsters.
>
>
> rb
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Peter, don't you work in philosophy? I'm surprised you didn't mention
vagueness as an issue here in the philosophy of language or go through
lexical analysis with your daughters. The debate ends rather quickly,
I would think with that. But my memory is incorrect about that,
perhaps.


Nick