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Subject:Re: capitalizing the 2nd letter of a word From:Bill Swallow <techcommdood -at- gmail -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Thu, 17 Feb 2005 11:48:53 -0500
This is a joke, right?
> Adobe's use of eSeminar, eBook, ePublishing, and other words in which the
> 2nd letter is capitalized when the word begins with an e, is not appreciated
> by a large contingent of your customers. Seeing that e-mail (not eMail) has
> been the norm lo these many years, why have you decided against the
> simplicity and logic of e-book, etc.?
>
> Uppercase letters look silly eMbedded within a word and add eFfort to the
> work of both eNgineer and eDitor. Many of us users are concerned about this
> plan to eScape the eStablished convention and will be eCstatic if you return
> to plain eNglish, but continuing this eXasperating practice will be an
> eMbarrassment to Adobe and the cause of eNdless ePithets. My ePistle is
> eNded.
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