Actually Dan, you are confabulating two separate issues. Royal, as opposed to "Royal" or "royal" is the proper usage. Just as it is proper to call some people Sailors even if they have never been on a sailboat in their life. These are just labels that are in common usage to distinguish certain people. You are the one who is adding value judgments, assuming that if they are royal, then they must be better than others. For me, I don't assume sailors know how to sail, that royals are any different than any other privileged minority, or that people with more expensive cameras are somehow better photographers. YMMV, but I find life to be much less contentious if I treat people according to who they are rather than what they are labeled.
stan On Apr 27, 2011, at 2:30 PM, Daniel J. Matyola wrote: > It was not a misuse of quotation marks. It was a subtle reminder that > I refuse to accept pretensions that some people are better than others > because of "royal" or "noble" lineage. > > Dan M > > On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 12:55 PM, Mark Roberts <[email protected]> wrote: >> John Francis wrote: >> >>> Can we instead discuss why somebody who one might have thought would have >>> been >>> a stickler for precise terminology chose to wrap the word royal in quotes? >> >> Good point. I don't give a toss about the royal wedding, but the >> misuse of quotation marks really bugs me. >> >> >> -- >> Mark Roberts - Photography & Multimedia >> www.robertstech.com >> >> -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
