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Subject:Re: Caps misunderstanding From:Jane_Torpie_at_III-HQ -at- PROTEON -dot- COM Date:Thu, 28 Apr 1994 14:58:00 EST
Margaret Gerard writes:
I constantly get documents to edit in which the writer plays fast and
loose with initial caps. Any ideas as to why this is so?
My company bought a product that was developed mostly by German SmallTalk
software engineers. Most of the doc. was written by a woman whose first
language was German, second language was SmallTalk, and third language was
English. There were lots of "extra" initial caps in her documents.
I suppose that this happened because capitalization in mid-sentence or
mid-statement is much more common in German and ST than in English.
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Easel Corporation
Burlington, MA, USA
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