Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Re: [libreoffice-marketing] definite article in the name “The Document Foundation”

2014-11-10 Thread Paolo Pelloni
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

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Re: [libreoffice-marketing] definite article in the name “The Document Foundation”

2014-11-10 Thread Tom Davies
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

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] definite article in the name “The Document Foundation”

2014-11-09 Thread Charles-H. Schulz
Hello Lera, Le Sun, 09 Nov 2014 18:52:58 +0200, Lera Goncharuk lera.goncha...@gmail.com a écrit : Hi all, I want to ask one question. Why was article “the” added to the name “The Document Foundation”? As I understood, it's not just because of grammar rules. Thank you in advance. As I was

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] definite article in the name “The Document Foundation”

2014-11-09 Thread Lera Goncharuk
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

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] definite article in the name “The Document Foundation”

2014-11-09 Thread Lera Goncharuk
Hi, I need your advice concerning one problem. I try to find news about TDF and LibreOffice in order to translate and publish them in Russian news feeds every week. Most redactors cut the name 'The Document Foundation' to 'Document Foundation'. After pointing out at the fact that it is in

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] definite article in the name “The Document Foundation”

2014-11-09 Thread Italo Vignoli
On 09/11/14 23:37, Lera Goncharuk wrote: In my opinion, from marketing perspective it will be reasonable to show the full name in the news. Actually, the name of the organization is The Document Foundation with The being an integral part of the name and not a simple article (and this is the

Re: [libreoffice-marketing] definite article in the name “The Document Foundation”

2014-11-09 Thread Lera Goncharuk
Hello Italo, В письме от 9 ноября 2014 23:52:55 пользователь Italo Vignoli написал: Actually, the name of the organization is The Document Foundation with The being an integral part of the name and not a simple article (and this is the reason why The should always be capitalized). So, omitting

[libreoffice-marketing] Re: [libreoffice-marketing] definite article in the name “The Document Foundation”

2014-11-09 Thread Tim---Kracked_P_P---webmaster
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