On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 4:21 PM, Wouter Verhelst <[email protected]> wrote: >>> Note that many of our Contributors are not native english speakers or >> >> English, I suppose? > > I fall in the category of "not native" here, but so do you ;-) > > I thought it was supposed to be lower case, but I could be mistaken. Anyone?
Generally, when an adjective is derived from a proper noun, it should be capitalized. According to Wikipedia [0]: > In English, adjectives derived from proper nouns (except the names of > characters > in fictional works) usually retain their capitalization – e.g. a Christian > church, > Canadian whisky, a Shakespearean sonnet, but not a quixoticmission, > malapropism, > holmesian nor pecksniffian [0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitalization#Adjectives Thanks for your work on this! -- Andrew Starr-Bochicchio Ubuntu Developer <https://launchpad.net/~andrewsomething> Debian Developer <http://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=asb> PGP/GPG Key ID: D53FDCB1 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/cal6k_azj+oij9d0boy-yxmq9hqu0u4smp+nf6rmqycv1fc6...@mail.gmail.com
