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From:
Russ Allbery
Date:
January 22, 2002 15:57
Subject:
Re: on parrot strings
Message ID:
yln0z62b3v.fsf@windlord.stanford.edu
Kai Henningsen <kaih@khms.westfalen.de> writes:
> A case that (in a slightly different context) recently came up on
> alt.usage.german (I don't remember if this particular point was made,
> but it belongs):
> "berliner" - attribute, belonging to, coming from, etc. Berlin.
> "Berliner" - noun, a citizen of that city, or a jelly donut.
> Two different words that only differ in capitalization.
In German, do you ever write in all caps? If so, how does it change
things like this?
You're right, I should have thought of German, where capitalization is
used to indicate part of speech.
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Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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