[Ads-l] Capitalizing in the middle of a trade name--trying again

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Mon Aug 13 17:29:48 UTC 2018 

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> On Aug 13, 2018, at 12:47, Geoffrey Nathan <geoffnathan at WAYNE.EDU> wrote:
> 
> I knew that, but the SeaMaster<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_P6M_SeaMaster#/media/File:Martin_P6M_Seamaster_in_flight_c1955.jpg> was such a cool plane that I wanted to post a picture of it. Alas, the listserv wouldn’t let me.
> 
> (trying one more time with fancy linky stuff).
> 
> 
> 
> Geoff
> 
> 
> 
> Geoffrey S. Nathan
> WSU Information Privacy Officer (Retired)
> Emeritus Professor, Linguistics Program
> http://blogs.wayne.edu/proftech/
> geoffnathan at wayne.edu
> 
> 
> 
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> From: American Dialect Society <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU> on behalf of Dan Goncharoff <thegonch at GMAIL.COM>
> Sent: Monday, August 13, 2018 12:44:25 PM
> To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
> Subject: Re: Capitalizing in the middle of a trade name--trying again
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> I thought it was pretty clear, even to the comedians, that I was
> referring to the noun blend with an interior capital and the noun
> blend without the interior capital.
> DanG
> 
> 
> On Mon, Aug 13, 2018 at 12:31 PM, Geoffrey Nathan <geoffnathan at wayne.edu> w=
> rote:
>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_P6M_SeaMaster#/media/File:Martin_P6M=
> _Seamaster_in_flight_c1955.jpg
>> 
>> vs
>> 
>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buick_Roadmaster#/media/File:1936BuickSedan=
> .jpg
>> 
>> 
>> (not sure why the listserv software insists on breaking URL's with an equ=
> al sign, but I'm now trying using 'plain text'. As we have noted on occasio=
> n, the listserv software mungs some people's email by inserting control cha=
> racters, while others are left unadorned.)
>> 
>> Geoff
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Geoffrey S. Nathan
>> WSU Information Privacy Officer (Retired)
>> Emeritus Professor, Linguistics Program
>> http://blogs.wayne.edu/proftech/
>> 
>> geoffnathan at wayne.edu
>> 
>> Nobody at Wayne State will EVER ask you for your password. Never send it=
> to anyone in an email, no matter how authentic the email  looks.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> From: American Dialect Society <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU> on behalf of Dan =
> Goncharoff <thegonch at GMAIL.COM>
>> Sent: Monday, August 13, 2018 12:08 PM
>> To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
>> Subject: Re: Capitalizing in the middle of a trade name
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>> Sender:       American Dialect Society <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
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>> 
>> How does this allow one to differentiate a Buick Roadmaster from the Mart=
> in
>> SeaMaster?
>> 
>> On Mon, Aug 13, 2018, 10:47 AM Margaret Winters <mewinters at wayne.edu> wro=
> te:
>> 
>>> I wonder if a better description (rather than stating that the middle of=
> a
>>> trade name is capitalized) is to say that the space between two words ha=
> s
>>> been omitted in this sort of trade name.  The capital would then be
>>> explained by the fact that the single word was once (or similar items we=
> re
>>> once) a compound with all members capitalized as are titles.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> best to all,
>>> 
>>> Margaret
>>> 
>>> 
>>> ----------------------------
>>> MARGARET E WINTERS
>>> Former Provost
>>> Professor Emerita - French and Linguistics
>>> Wayne State University
>>> Detroit, MI  48202
>>> 
>>> mewinters at wayne.edu
>>> 
>>> 
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>>> ________________________________
>>> From: American Dialect Society <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU> on behalf of Dan
>>> Goncharoff <thegonch at GMAIL.COM>
>>> Sent: Monday, August 13, 2018 10:39 AM
>>> To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
>>> Subject: Re: Capitalizing in the middle of a trade name
>>> 
>>> What about the 1927 Buick LaSalle?
>>> 
>>> On Mon, Aug 13, 2018, 10:32 AM Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> This practice has been pretty common for years (so common, I can't thi=
> nk
>>> of
>>>> an example), but I was shocked (anglice, mildly surprised) to find thi=
> s
>>> ex.
>>>> from 1955. (I've been familiar with the product almost as long, but ne=
> ver
>>>> thought the one-word name was capitalized in the middle).
>>>> 
>>>> 1955 _Newsweek_ [Google Books]: The tanks have also checked out countl=
> ess
>>>> ideas for seaplanes, notably the Martin SeaMaster, the 600-mile-an-hou=
> r
>>>> multijet bomber which the Navy has just partially revealed as a
>>>> revolutionary contender to land-based jets.
>>>> 
>>>> Like the spelling ,the SeaMaster was one of the most futuristic-lookin=
> g
>>>> items of the '50s.
>>>> 
>>>> JL
>>>> 
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>>> truth."
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