[haiku] Re: New Haiku flier - Draft 1 for review
- From: "Jonas Sundström" <jonas@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 31 Jan 2010 21:44:47 +0100
Humdinger "Humdinger" <humdingerb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
...
> I'm quite sure that Be Inc. has emphasized on various
> occasions that it's "the BeOS".
Had BeOS turned wildly successful internationally we might
have seen Be dropping the "the".
Some languages apparently don't even have definite article.
(see map: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Definite_article )
Swedish has, I think, four forms of -postfix- definite article,
which, I think, is sometimes hard to apply to foreign trademarks
and loanwords which have not yet found an acceptable Swedish form.
But "BeOS" is a indivisable trademark IMO, and does not need a
definite article. Myself I pronounce it Be-Oss, rather than
Bee-Oh-Ess, even though both forms seem equally good to me in
Swedish.
Not that this should matter much to Haiku. :}
FWIW,
Jonas.
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