On Mon, 01 Aug 2005 23:23:22 -0400, Mark E. Shoulson <
mark@...> wrote:
> It has long been referred to as BiCapitalization, I believe (see
> http://catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/B/BiCapitalization.html).
Aha! By E.S.R., the philosopher of the Open source movement. Fine
document, and entertaining reading, as well. New to me; thanks.
(Anyone for "BiC12n"? I can think of someone who would probably not like
it.)
> There is also the related phenomenon of sTUdlY cAPs
> (http://catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/S/studlycaps.html). InterCaps is also
> listed in the jargon file as a synonym for BiCapitalization.
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Well, there's a related and commonplace form of that, which is done out of
ignorance or carelessness, by a non-trivial number of adults who never
learned the letters of their alphabet in the context of hand lettering.
Some earmarks are the passions for dotted capital I's, for the "footless"
L, and for the embedded capital K, as in "TrucKing". (I once saw "MIIK"!
(sans-serif).) Locally, school kids seem to be much-better taught,
recently.
</rantlet>
I'm inferring that representing Turkish without a Turkish-inclusive (?)
font substitutes certain embedded caps, such as (apparently) "G" for "ğ",
and (perhaps) an "I" for "ı". I was quite perplexed by a reference to
(iirc) the "fGIod" keyboard layout as one of the options in Linux. It
seems that the Turks have re-thought-out the letter layout, and created a
distinctively-different one. (More on this to [vellum], I hope, soon.)
Regards,
--
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