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| From | Tom Anderson <twic@urchin.earth.li> |
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| Newsgroups | comp.lang.java.programmer |
| Subject | Re: CLI Java Glitch |
| Date | 2011-06-23 23:20 +0100 |
| Organization | Stack Usenet News Service |
| Message-ID | <alpine.DEB.2.00.1106232311030.31514@urchin.earth.li> (permalink) |
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On Thu, 23 Jun 2011, Stefan Ram wrote: > Tom Anderson <twic@urchin.earth.li> writes: >>> The word »Cuban« means »related to Cuba«, >>> while »cuban« means »related to cubes«. >> I don't believe it does - i've never heard that word before - but i will >> certainly use it to mean that in future. > > http://mathworld.wolfram.com/CubanPrime.html > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuban_prime > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuban_hip_hop > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuban_Revolution I'm aware of the use of Cuban to mean 'pertaining to Cuba'. I was not previously aware of the use of the word 'cuban' in relation to certain primes related to cubic numbers - interesting! However, i am still not aware of any *other* uses of cuban in connection with cubes, and i suspect the name is a humorous idiosyncracy of this Cunningham chap who defined them. I had a look for the paper where he did so, but i can't even find a citation, let alone a copy. In normal use, you use 'cubic' as the adjective for cubes; i think mathematicians and laymen alike would correct you if you said 'cuban'. > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitonym In English, we do capitalise proper nouns, it's true. The examples in that list that aren't proper nouns are highly dubious. >>> When I made a case-related mistake in a dictation exercise in school, >>> the teacher marked that as an error and gave me a worse grade, which >>> in turn helped me to learn the language. >> >> Was this in English or German (or something else)? > > in German. > >> I don't know German, but i've been told that case is much more >> significant in German than in English. > > There are more words beginning with an uppercase letter (I > am thinking of nouns, which always begin with an uppercase > letter), so one can find more examples of minimal pairs. > > OTOH, »I« is written in uppercase in English, while the > corresponding German word is not. Oh, that's just a modern typesetting fad. It's not intrinsically uppercase. tom -- Yulava? Niob Yam!
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