Re: How do YOU refer to the Palm Device?

[Alan Pinstein]

I'm from the US and I don't remeber ever being taught that. Adjectives can
definitely be capitalized.

Talk about off topic ;)

Alan

>>> 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
>