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From: ddb@ns.network.com (David Dyer-Bennet)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: case sensitivity
Message-ID: <1331@ns.network.com>
Date: 27 Apr 89 21:22:53 GMT
References: <13159@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU> <1989Apr21.194615.5344@utzoo.uucp> <1320@ns.network.com> <871@twwells.uucp>
Reply-To: ddb@ns.UUCP (David Dyer-Bennet)
Organization: Terrabit Software
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In article <871@twwells.uucp> bill@twwells.UUCP (T. William Wells) writes:
:In article <1320@ns.network.com> ddb@ns.UUCP (David Dyer-Bennet) writes:
:: Casing rules in English are generally formal, not substantive, and
:: therefore I consider case to be essentially not significant in normal
:: English usage.
:
:	March vs. march?
:	May vs. may?
:	August vs. august?
etc.

But in practice nobody gets particularly bent out of shape if somebody writes
"Well, then we won't have the blasted thing done until august, I guess."
The formal convention is there, but it doesn't seem to be what people use
for figuring out the meaning of the sentence.

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