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Subject:Re: capitalization of 'web' From:"nosnivel -at- netvision -dot- net -dot- il" <nosnivel -at- netvision -dot- net -dot- il> To:margulisd -at- comcast -dot- net, nosnivel -at- netvision -dot- net -dot- il, techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com Date:Tue, 28 Nov 2006 06:06:43 -0500
Dick writes:
> The analogy fails because you are implying that the World Wide Web is a
> member of a class (webs) containing other members.
Indeed I do believe that the World Wide Web is a
member of a class (webs) containing other members.
If they had called it the World Wide Jacaranda,
I'd have trouble lowercasing the shortened form
because it isn't a jacaranda in any normal sense.
But it's a web in that it's a complex of many
interconnections just as spider webs, fabric
webs, and social webs are. I follow your logic
but I guess I disagree with your premise.
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