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And of course it's not really meaningful to draw comparisons with prose. Software isn't prose, though I do find my own code quite poetic if I do say so myself (and apparently I just did.) To me it's really about recognizing identifiers in a sea of punctuation, and quickly differentiating them from the background for readability, not about the actual words themselves.
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Quote: "english" is just as readable as "English".
...but have two different meanings.
"english" means to add spin or side pressure during certain physical actions, such as when playing pool or throwing a ball, etc.
"English" means either the English language or the English people as a group.
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As I wrote, "You may construct examples where casing might reduce ambiguity, but there are a lot more and a lot graver ambguities from other language mechanisms".
Sure, a given spelling (even disregarding casing) may have more than one interpretation. (And along with that: maybe a different pronounciation - one of my hobbies is to collect Norwegian homographs with different pronounciation, for seeing how good speech synthesizers are at selecting the right interpretation from context.)
Even though "english" and "English" have two meanings: Can you provide an example of a complete sentence where the context does not provide enough information to select the right meaning, so that the sentence (as a whole) have two different meanings?
In my collection of a couple hundred Norwegian homographs (limited to those with multpiple pronounciations), I have only been able to make up two or three examples of sentences that can have two different meanings based on the ambiguity of the spelled word. I doubt that it would be much easier in English, especially when you limit yourself to words with different casing.
Lots of jokes are based on a given word having several meanings, but independent of casing and with identical pronounciation. That is not what we are talking about here!
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Fair point. The only example I could come up with is not politely publishable, so no.
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Capitalization of the first word of a sentence was added when the printing press came in, because punctuation was sparse at best then, and even if used the period was hard to see - a capital letter marked the start of a sentence much more readably. (Prior to this, Old English had no distinction between upper and lower case letters, so nothing was accentuated unless it was the decorated letter that started a page).
Even now, a capital letter is easier to spot than a teeny tiny dot!
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I find it far more annoying when someone capitalizes the first letter of every single word. I can't understand how someone would think that is something they should do.
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Given that case is the noun's equivalent of verb inflection, I should comment that English doesn't really have case (sort-of, but not really -- plural and genitive don't quite reach the mark).
However, I have the feeling that you might be talking about major and minor case -- in which case, you should have a chat with Skitt.
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"Major and minor case" - what is that? Are you referring to ordinary capitals vs. small capitals?
In Norwegian, we call "upper" and "lower" case "big" and "small" letters ("store" and "små" in Norwegian), but I have never before seen them referred to as "major" and "minor" in English. Is that something else?
The terms upper and lower case came with lead type: The setters had a row of boxes with A to Z lead types (and I suppose non-letters following the 26 letter boxes), and then a second row of boxes with a to z lead types, below the A to Z types: 'A' in the upper box, 'a' in the lower box immediately below it.
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"Maiuscolo" and "minisculo" (meaning major and minor) are the etymological source of the correct grammatical terms.Member 7989122 wrote: The terms upper and lower case came with lead type: The setters had a row of boxes with A to Z lead types (and I suppose non-letters following the 26 letter boxes), and then a second row of boxes with a to z lead types, below the A to Z types: 'A' in the upper box, 'a' in the lower box immediately below it.
This is wonderfully true, because it's a superb example of how jargon phrases/terms get added to common usage in a language; and it's good that you've spread that knowledge here.
But major and minor are still the "correct" terms, even if they're not used anywhere as near as much.
It's like medical terms. Who the Hell calls the common cold anything other than "the common cold"?
(Tip: the answer to the question contains the words "medical" and "experts", often in that order)
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I call them Fred.
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BTW, anyone is interested in such things should watch the excellent documentary "Helvetica" which is a history of that ubiquitous type face and parenthetically of type faces in general.
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Dean Roddey wrote: people ignore the fact that English has more than one case and write everything in lower case
Well...in all fairness, if someone's not going to bother to use proper capitalization, I'd much rather read something all in lowercase than all in uppercase. You've gotta pick your battles. I'll settle for this.
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I have my own startup and am facing the problem of managing firm's documents. I have so many documents: Letters to individuals or other firms, Contracts, Technical documents, etc. I have different folders for different categories: Letters, Docs & Projects, Finance, Law Docs, etc. The problem is, I frequently forget which document belongs to which category an fall into endless problem of folder search. I have decided to use tagging system instead of storing files into categorized folder. Is this a good idea and do you know of any software that simply does this?
I have Win7 inside a vm and the guest is Linux. I prefer a Windows software.
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Rolling his own solution is probably not feasible. The OP is running a startup, he probably does not have time to do extraneous programming.
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0) How is some random app going to be any better than a well-organized folder hierarchy?
1) You're a programmer, and you have an idea of how you want it to work. Write an app yourself.
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>"1) You're a programmer, and you have an idea of how you want it to work. Write an app yourself."
Yup, that would be the best advice out of all of the others.
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I think categorizing like you have complicates things considerably. I think it would be best to sort by customer so all of your documentation relating to one customer is in one place.
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That was my exact thought when I read what was being done.
Create a folder for document templates, don't touch it except to update those templates. Then create a folder for each customer, copy templates as needed and modify those, name them in a meaningful way.
That or get a CRM system (SalesForce, Dynamics, Sugar), load your templates into a library and then your customers as accounts/contacts/etc. and then let it keep track of all that for you. Then you can focus more on running the business instead of wasting time trying to reinvent the wheel when someone has already made one that works.
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Since you replied to me, which I appreciate, I don't think he'll see this.
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Behzad Sedighzadeh wrote: The problem is, I frequently forget which document belongs to which category an fall into endless problem of folder search
That is not an issue that software will auto-magically fix for you.
you need to step up your game in management/business best practices..
I'd rather be phishing!
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Fogbugz.
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Office 365 - Sharepoint Online?
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Are you mad??
More seriously we never got it to work satisfactorily
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You might be able to get .dan.g.'s excellent ToDoList to do the job, as you can insert file links in comments. But it might be a bit awkward - I don't know.
Did you google "file tagging"? A tabbles.net option comes up that isn't free, that looks decent.
Another option that appeared is Microsoft's Tag Explorer, for free. It might use File Manager tags, so you would not need the program to view the tags, which is a plus.
If none of those work for you, as others said, you might want to create what you need for yourself, if you have the time. If it was me, I'd use MS Access and get what you need real quick, as it is excellent for putting a design together fast.
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