Re: There must be some kind of standard....

Subject: Re: There must be some kind of standard....
From: beelia <beelia -at- gmail -dot- com>
To: Gene Kim-Eng <techwr -at- genek -dot- com>
Date: Wed, 24 Feb 2010 15:48:56 -0800

I find liberal capitalization most often in engineering docs written by
Indian programmers. Often that habit is carried over to the GUI, which looks
really weird to American and English eyes.

On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 3:36 PM, Gene Kim-Eng <techwr -at- genek -dot- com> wrote:

> Were any of the documents you're reading written by engineers? There is a
> kind of occupational tendency among engineers to write this way, especially
> if they're "old school" types who cut their professional eyeteeth doing
> drafting, where everything is lettered either in title case or all in caps.
>
> Gene Kim-Eng
>
>
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> Has anyone seen a written standard that provides a justification or
> explanation for this kind of writing?
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