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Yeah I struggle with "Preserve" vs "Preserves" sometimes. Was there something in particular that struck you as unfortunate, though?
by tonyg 2y ago
Yeah I struggle with "Preserve" vs "Preserves" sometimes. Was there something in particular that struck you as unfortunate, though?
- layer8 2y ago"Preserves <something>", for example "Preserves data", reads like "it preserves data". Probably less so in the middle of a sentence, due to the uppercasing, but in the TOC it reads like bullet points enumerating what is preserved.
- tonyg 2y agoThank you! I wonder if something a bit contrived such as small-caps could help. I'll experiment.
- layer8 2y agoPutting Preserves in italics would be an alternative. The name nevertheless feels awkward to me, also in spoken conversation. A made-up word like maybe “Pres” or “Edal” (from “expressive data language”) would work better IMO.