Am 25.04.2012 09:24, schrieb Paul Menzel: > Am Mittwoch, den 25.04.2012, 11:05 +0530 schrieb Arun Raghavan: >> On Wed, 2012-04-25 at 07:02 +0300, Tanu Kaskinen wrote: >>> On Tue, 2012-04-24 at 23:34 +0200, Paul Menzel wrote: >>>> ? s,Pulseaudio,PulseAudio, >>> Hmm, 4 out of 5 occurrences were written by me. I happen to dislike the >>> "PulseAudio" spelling, because it makes typing harder and is against >>> normal grammar rules and causes trouble in the wiki. If the resulting >>> inconsistency annoys people, I guess I should stop doing that, unless we >>> have a consensus that the "official" spelling should be changed. >> I've always assumed proper grammar goes out the window for proper >> nouns. :) >> >> Aesthetically, I like PulseAudio better, > Personally I have the opinion that grammatically proper spelling with a > capital starting letter and everything else lower case letters would be > the optimum. The name would then also be spelled correctly in newspaper > and other media having rules to follow the official rules rigorously. > >> but even otherwise, by convention it'd be nicer to just spell it like >> that since that's how it's been done everywhere else. > That is a good point and probably the showstopper for change the > official spelling. > Obviously everyone thinks PulseAudio is the official spelling since the homepage[1] spells it that way. Best regards. [1]: http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/PulseAudio
