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Because of the capitalisation combined with the domain name that tittle ("The Renaissance of the Shell") made me expect to read a piece of propaganda from the o
by anonymfus 6y ago
Because of the capitalisation combined with the domain name that tittle ("The Renaissance of the Shell") made me expect to read a piece of propaganda from the oil company. Considering that generally the term shell means any software with purpose to manipulate files and run other programs, it would be better to call it "The renaissance of the command line shell".
- kwhitefoot 6y agoIf it had meant the oil company it would have omitted the definite article: "The Renaissance of Shell". Or perhaps even included the full name: "The Renaissance of Royal Dutch Shell".
- anonymfus 6y agoThank you, my native language lacks articles.
- kwhitefoot 6y agoAh, in that case yours is a perfectly understandable interpretation. May I ask which language?
- anonymfus 6y agoRussian
- kwhitefoot 6y agoThank you. Now another question: how would you make the same distinction in Russian? I mean an explanation of it not just the actual words, I had three weeks of Russian in high school nearly fifty years ago but none of it has stuck.