Malcolm: Prevent Trojan Source attacks with GCC 12

Posted Jan 15, 2022 12:37 UTC (Sat) by mpr22 (subscriber, #60784)
In reply to: Malcolm: Prevent Trojan Source attacks with GCC 12 by mathstuf
Parent article: Malcolm: Prevent Trojan Source attacks with GCC 12

Plenty of native English speakers spell that trademarked foreign proper noun without the acute, for a variety of different reasons. (can't input acute accents on their HID; don't care about diacritical marks at all; managed to reprogram their brains to assume (augmented) Latin vowels for any word that isn't obviously English or spelled-by-an-English-person so don't need the accent to pronounce it correctly; are weird half-purist weebs (if they were really purist they'd spell it in katakana); ...)

(In Pokemon fandom you'll even find people who deliberately de-capitalize it on the grounds that in-universe it's a humdrum ordinary word.)

Malcolm: Prevent Trojan Source attacks with GCC 12

Posted Jan 17, 2022 1:18 UTC (Mon) by NYKevin (subscriber, #129325) [Link]

> (In Pokemon fandom you'll even find people who deliberately de-capitalize it on the grounds that in-universe it's a humdrum ordinary word.)

Yeah, but *everybody* does that if the title is a common noun in-universe. Mass Effect fans will write "the mass effect" (and I believe the official in-game codex uses this style as well), Portal fans refer to "the portal gun" (its official name is "the Aperture Science Handheld Portal Device," and so some fans call it the "ASHPD"), and I have never heard of anyone capitalizing "hobbit" except in the actual title of Tolkien's book. This is completely standard English.