From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Robert Thorpe Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: the English language, again (was: Re: title-case function) Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2019 17:41:58 +0100 Message-ID: <87lg02xa95.fsf@robertthorpeconsulting.com> References: <86a7gjlbr3.fsf_-_@zoho.eu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="6593"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Apr 22 18:59:22 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1hIcHp-0001aV-HM for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 22 Apr 2019 18:59:21 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:40139 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hIcHo-0004E3-HO for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 22 Apr 2019 12:59:20 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:45028) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hIcDu-00012m-4o for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 22 Apr 2019 12:55:19 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hIc15-0006o8-EL for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 22 Apr 2019 12:42:04 -0400 Original-Received: from outbound-smtp05.blacknight.com ([81.17.249.38]:46571) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hIc15-0006i4-8g for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 22 Apr 2019 12:42:03 -0400 Original-Received: from mail.blacknight.com (pemlinmail03.blacknight.ie [81.17.254.16]) by outbound-smtp05.blacknight.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4D224989B1 for ; Mon, 22 Apr 2019 16:42:00 +0000 (UTC) Original-Received: (qmail 13362 invoked from network); 22 Apr 2019 16:42:00 -0000 Original-Received: from unknown (HELO RTLaptop) (rt@robertthorpeconsulting.com@[51.37.88.142]) by 81.17.254.9 with ESMTPSA (AES128-SHA encrypted, authenticated); 22 Apr 2019 16:42:00 -0000 In-Reply-To: <86a7gjlbr3.fsf_-_@zoho.eu> (message from Emanuel Berg on Sun, 21 Apr 2019 15:38:08 +0200) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 81.17.249.38 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:120030 Archived-At: People are talking about the use of English in the IT industry. This is beside the point. Let's assume that Emmanuel is right and the English continues to be the dominant language of software engineering, computer science and so on. That has very little to do with this title-case function discussed here. After all, you hardly ever write a title when you're coding. Titles are for normal documents. In the vast majority of cases, normal documents are written in the native language of the country you're in. Something that people should remember here is that lots of Emacs users aren't professional software engineers. I'm not and I have hardly written any code in Emacs in the last year. I've written a lot of other stuff though. BR, Robert Thorpe