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Date: Tue, 19 May 2015 16:30:03 -0700
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Subject: Re: ANNOUNCE: DJGPP 2.05 beta 1
From: "Louis Santillan (lpsantil AT gmail DOT com)" <djgpp AT delorie DOT com>
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See [0].  DJ is not an initialism, AFAIK.  As such, D.J. is not
correct.  Dj is not correct because his parents did not spell his name
that way in naming him.  It's not hard to understand [1].  And once
you come across his situation, you'll find his parents did a great job
in giving him a unique and memorable name [2].

[0] http://www.englishgrammar.org/common-grammar-exceptions/
[1] https://xkcd.com/327/
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Boy_Named_Sue


On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 3:59 PM, Rod Pemberton <fork AT lllljunkqwer DOT cpm> wrote:
> On Tue, 19 May 2015 18:19:39 -0400, Hans-Bernhard Bröker
> <HBBroeker AT t-online DOT de> wrote:
>>
>> Am 19.05.2015 um 23:58 schrieb Rod Pemberton:
>>>
>>> On Tue, 19 May 2015 13:05:07 -0400, DJ Delorie <dj AT delorie DOT com> wrote:
>
>
>>>>> D.J.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> If you've been around all this time, why don't you spell
>>>> my name correctly yet?
>>>
>>>
>>> I spelled it correctly.
>>
>>
>> You're really quite full of it today, aren't you?
>
>
> I don't know why you'd say that.  I did spell it correctly.
> Only the first letter of a name is capitalized in English.
>
> A common example in English is Billy Joe as in Billy Joe Smith
> as BJ Smith or B.J. Smith.  E.g., if his name had been David
> James Delorie, he would use DJ Delorie or D.J. Delorie.
>
> English has a rule.  "DJ" means "D.J." and not "Dj".
>
> As long as "DJ" insists on violating English rules by using
> "DJ" instead of "Dj" he is going to have people who understand
> his name to be "D.J."  End of story.
>
>
>
> Rod Pemberton
>
> --
> If fewer guns reduced murders, how does one explain
> Moscow, Chicago, New York, and South Africa?
>

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