Re: How do YOU refer to the Palm Device?

[Thomas Engelmeier]

>> But I agree that there's some middle ground.  Maybe something
>>like "Perform a HotSync to backup the records from your Palm handheld"
>>would be okay?
>
>No, "Perform a HotSync to back up" isn't ok, though the "Palm handheld"
>part of that is fine.  Remember, "HotSync" is an adjective... so you could
>write something like

Acording to what I learned at school a capitalized word is never ever an
adjective. Especially not in english, where only names are capitalized. OK,
it's not my mother language, it's the second foreign language I learned.

I guess you'd not be tempted to write Mexican food, as an adjective it is
supposedly "mexican", and capitalized when used as a noun.

Ciao,
     Tom_E