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Do you have the same opinion about e. e. cummings?
by failrate 8y ago
Do you have the same opinion about e. e. cummings?
- mrob 8y agoYes. Even somebody I respect as much as RMS I won't call "rms". The only exception I would make is for accounts/usernames, which are IMO primarily intended to be machine readable. If I say "rms" I mean "the person currently posting from the relevant rms account", not "the person called Richard Stallman". If you reject the conventions of English, then you are writing in your own private language, and you should expect people to transliterate it into English. This is standard practice for non-English writing systems. E.g. The Prime Minister of Japan is Shinzo Abe. This is making three changes from 安倍 晋三. The writing system is changed to English. The personal name and the family name are swapped. The long vowel of 三 is ignored (if you are willing to use diacritics you could write it as ō, but this is not a standard English letter, so there is nothing wrong with omitting it). This is far bigger change than just using English capitalization.
- failrate 8y agoI can empathize with your viewpoint, but I feel that your interpretation is too strict. It's good for you but not for me.
- TheSpiceIsLife 8y agoI’m not aware of any use of Cummings other than as a proper noun. When I saw bell hooks I thought it was something about webhooks and notifications or telephony.
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