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[ih] 'Internet' vs 'internet'
- Subject: [ih] 'Internet' vs 'internet'
- From: scott.brim at gmail.com (Scott Brim)
- Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2018 11:30:53 -0400
- In-reply-to: <[email protected]>
- References: <[email protected]>
On Mon, Oct 1, 2018 at 10:46 AM Noel Chiappa <jnc at mercury.lcs.mit.edu>
wrote:
> BTW, reading up on this topic, apparently some places capitalize the thing,
> but not its use in adjectival form. I don't believe this is correct. One
> doesn't say 'white house hallway', it would (properly) be 'White House
> hallway'. And 'Internet hosts' has a different meaning (again) from
> 'internet
> hosts'.
>
What I did for this, to make the meaning crystal clear and perhaps
informative, was to avoid adjectival forms. Instead of "Internet hosts",
"hosts on the Internet".
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