KamelBuchstaben

[Laurence Horn]

On Aug 9, 2013, at 10:28 AM, Amy West wrote:

> Has anyone mentioned the term "intercapitation" for what's been called
> CamelCase? That's the term that's been used in our household. It would
> also cover things like iMac. However, can't find it in W3, OED3,
> Wordnik, GoogleBooks, or Google. There is one hit in GB, but it's a
> document from the college where both my husband & I work, so I suspect
> that that's due to us. Perhaps the correct form of the term is
> "intercapitalization": I did turn up some hits for that:
>
> http://rbbadger.wordpress.com/2011/09/13/intercapitalization/
>
> As for "unicase", I like it, but we have to add the modifiers "minuscule
> unicase" and "majuscule unicase" to distinguish between what's been
> called zwicky case

formerly known as archy/cummings case?

LH

> AND SHOUTING, both of which are "unicases."
>
> ---Amy West
>
> On 8/9/13 12:01 AM, Automatic digest processor wrote:
>> Date:    Thu, 8 Aug 2013 10:29:38 -0400
>> From:    "Joel S. Berson"<Berson at ATT.NET>
>> Subject: Re: KamelBuchstaben
>>
>> At 8/7/2013 12:06 AM, W Brewer wrote:
>>> >And inadditionto unspaced, dehyphenated Compoundconcatenation, capitalizing
>>> >all Nouns would enhance translationsoftware Accuracy. Der Meinung bin ich.
>> Having been educated in the 18th Century, I like this Idea.  And it
>> would inherently be CamelCased -- all Parts of CompoundNouns would
>> have InitialCaps.
>>
>> DMbI.*
>>
>> Joel
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