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"Judy A. Kegl" Date: Thu Jul 22, 1999 2:34 pm Subject: Re: Writing Name Signs | ||||||||||||||||
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A suggestion for whatever its worth... In Nicaragua, we found it useful to designate proper nouns (name signs for people, cities, etc.) by underlining the sign. Hence, we are able to distinguish nina (little girl) from Nina (one of Columbus' ships) without getting confused. In english, for example, John likes loody vs. John likes Loody. In the first case, I would guess loody to be perhaps a food. Anyway, I would expect to find "loody" in a dictionary. In the second case, I would assume Loody to be a person, and I wouldn't bother looking up the meaning in a dictionary. So, we found it useful to use underlining since we can't capitalize. -- James | ||||||||||||||||
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