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Post by Dave Miller on Jun 27, 2020 9:24:26 GMT
Nowadays, it seems, many a tech-based company feels that it can't show its head without adopting some oddity of capitalisation: PayPal, iPhone, eBay, and so on. I understand that the pattern is given the rather pleasing name of 'camel case'.
It can be a pain, though! I've just had occasion to write a sentence beginning with eBay. None of these looks right:
eBay produced ...
EBay produced ...
Ebay produced ...
WhAt iS oNe tO dO?
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Post by Twoddle on Jun 27, 2020 10:46:04 GMT
I have a problem with camel case. On the one hand I disapprove heartily of the gross abuse of the English language by the insertion of a capital letter in the middle of a name. On the other hand, my surname is McDonald.  |
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Post by Verbivore on Jun 27, 2020 10:46:31 GMT
Dave, camelCase is something I've (grudgingly) learned to live with as I lived / worked for so long in an iWorld (Mac everything). What I haven't come to terms with is using, e.g., iThingy to open a sentence. I've often gone to considerable pains to recast a statement to avoid the awkwardness and ugliness you post about.
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Post by Verbivore on Jun 27, 2020 10:48:59 GMT
I have a problem with camel case. On the one hand I disapprove heartily of the gross abuse of the English language by the insertion of a capital letter in the middle of a name. On the other hand, my surname is McDonald. Ah – a bit of cross-posting there, Twod! :-) Surely, though, your McD… is excused by virtue of its Scottishness (Scotsness?), is it not? If it's not an English word, do English conventions apply? |
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Post by Little Jack Horner on Jun 27, 2020 15:53:10 GMT
I don’t like it much either. One can only recast the sentence, I think.
I also dislike a capital A without the crossbar. When did that originate? One has to use a capital lambda which is a pain.
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Post by Dave Miller on Jun 27, 2020 16:34:33 GMT
I don’t like it much either. One can only recast the sentence, I think. If I were the author, I would indeed recast. My problem here, though, was to place a member's contributed story into the monthly car-club magazine that I produce. When I receive an article, I have no hesitation in correcting spelling and punctuation, but normally like to leave the author's "voice" alone. It was he who cast the sentence, and - as a spoken sentence - it was fine. I felt the need to correct "Ebay" ... but couldn't decide what to! Some things just aren't writeable. |
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