Re: [SLE] It's SuSE not SUSE
From: steve nutt (luckysnutt_at_cox.net)
Date: 11/22/05
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To: <suse-linux-e@suse.com> Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2005 20:37:22 -0700
Really:
This is a pedantic agreement with overtones of idiotism. I say at least it
is in the ball park. Get a life!!!!!!!!!!!! Say something worth saying.
Steve
****************Original Message*************************
On 11/16/2005 11:58 PM, jfweber@bellsouth.net wrote:
>On Wednesday 16 November 2005 4:02 am, Steven T. Hatton wrote:
>
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><snip!>
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>>Yes, but I really meant the fact that typing SuSE required just a bit
>>of extra effort to get it right. And there is a reason behind having
>>the lower-case 'u'. It is, IMO, an insult to the German language to
>>ignore that detail. I could be wrong, but I suspect SUSE is an
>>Americanism. I am quite proud of my 31+ decades of American
>>ancestry, but this tendency to "normalize" every nuance of a foreign
>>culture is utterly offensive.
>>
>>
> Steven,
>The USA didn't do it, SUSE, the company you are trying to enforce your
>ideas of proper usage upon, did it. They likely had good and sufficient
>reasons for doing it.
Probably too many Americans were confused about the switch *back* to
caps *after* the "u".
<ducking/running>
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