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

Subject: Re: There must be some kind of standard....
From: Chris Morton <salt -dot- morton -at- gmail -dot- com>
To: techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
Date: Wed, 24 Feb 2010 15:52:52 -0800

So THAT'S (Indians) where it comes from....makes sense! That was one of the
biggest challenges in taking my current position, albeit even our American
marketing folks had adopted "Pooh-bear capitalization" (great phrase).

> Chris

On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 3:48 PM, beelia <beelia -at- gmail -dot- com> wrote:

> 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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RE: There must be some kind of standard....: From: Gene Kim-Eng
Re: There must be some kind of standard....: From: beelia

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