[Ads-l] I'm getting old: What's a DM?

Dan Goncharoff thegonch at GMAIL.COM
Wed Mar 21 00:55:28 UTC 2018


The beginning of which line?

The term was Deutsche mark.

On Mar 20, 2018 5:55 PM, "Mark Mandel" <mark.a.mandel at gmail.com> wrote:

> Oh, come now, it's at the beginning of a line.
>
> Mark
>
>
> On Tue, Mar 20, 2018 at 8:21 AM, Galen Buttitta <
> satorarepotenetoperarotas3 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > “Mark” didn’t need to be capitalized because in this case it’s a common
> > noun in English.
> >
> > > On Mar 19, 2018, at 22:55, Mark Mandel <mark.a.mandel at GMAIL.COM>
> wrote:
> > ...
> >
> > Mark (not Deutsche. Shouldn't they have capitalized "mark", since German
> > > caps all nouns?)
> >
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