Hi :) +1 It is a good name. As a native English speaker i can confirm the little "the" gets dropped as Paolo described. I have a funny feeling there is some strange use-case where having "The ..." at the beginning creates problems but i think it's rare enough to be ignorable and anyway everything has a downside if you look carefully enough. The trick is finding a downside that really doesn't matter and i think TDF does that. Maybe just in filing?
Regards from Tom :) On 10 November 2014 11:54, Paolo Pelloni <[email protected]> wrote: > I may be wrong not being a native speaker but..... > > Most of the bands are called "The Beatles", "The Foundations" .... you > pick (not the Eagles though). > > I believe that normally you read "....and after the tour The Beatles > went back to the recording of...." and the double the is dropped. In > those instances most of the times The is capitalised, seldom is not. I > always read the former as dropping the "the" article and the latter as a > shortening of the name. > > Personally I like "The Document Foundation" exactly for the reason > Charles explained. > > Paolo > > > On dom, 2014-11-09 at 21:37 -0500, Tim---Kracked_P_P---webmaster wrote: > > > On 11/09/2014 01:29 PM, Lera Goncharuk wrote: > > > В письме от 9 ноября 2014 18:33:20 пользователь Charles-H. Schulz > написал: > > >> Hello Lera, > > >> As I was the one who originally came up with that name (although the > > >> founders had to all be in agreement with it), I may answer. It is not > > >> exactly clear why, and I probably forgot a few things sine we first > > >> started all this, but I know for sure that in English, if you say > > >> "Document Foundation" it will not have the same effect than if you say > > >> "the Document Foundation". The definite article "the" puts emphasis on > > >> the rest of the name, which itself has one very generic noun > > >> "document". So "The Document Foundation" is really "THE foundation of > > >> the Document". > > >> > > >> Hope this helps, > > > Hello Charles, > > > > > > Yes. I thought exactly that you said. Thank you. > > > > > > Lera > > > > > > > > > > With "The" in front of the name, it implies that it is the best of what > > it does. > > Having TDF as the abbreviation, it makes that statement an emphasis to > > the fact that it is " Th'E' " one and only or the best. > > > > I am glad it made it into the name. > > > > The only issue for grammar would be the double "the" in the line using > > the proper full name use with the content like "this is the that" - i.e. > > - We see the "The Documentation Foundation" growing as its product > > "LibreOffice" becoming even more popular. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] > Problems? > http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ > Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette > List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/marketing/ > All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be > deleted > -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/marketing/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
