style conflict decision

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

OK I prefer the "the" in a bandname to NOT be capitalised (i dislike captial drift and stand manfully against it like little hans w.fingah in dyke-ah)

well i just got to marking up this phrase "bands like The Smiths and The The": obviously that is "the Smiths", equally obviously NOT "the The" --> hence i have decided that the name "The The" falls into the same category as "Liquid Liquid" (or insert bettah examples but this is all my mopey man-fluey brane can muster at the moment)

Comments

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

Yeah Yeah Yeahs!

Medium Medium

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

SWANS (i *think* they also demanded to be ALL CAPS)

Re: Medium Medium

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

they should talk to kd lang about that!

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

i don't mind all smallies -- it is HUMBLE (and his PIES)

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

was it bell hooks who said she used no-caps in her name because what she said was more impt than who she was? even though by using no-caps and infuriating subs everywhere she was obv drawing MORE attention to who she was. tbh I'm surprised that subs through the ages have even played along with these people's games, it's like trying to find a backwards R to use when you're writing about Toys R Us.

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

haha i have subbed bell hooks OMIGOD she is 1xtotaldiva as regards her DREADFUL DREADFUL writing!

yeah thinks like finding weird letters is fun -- it's out of the dull routine (i also like faking east european diacritical marks using standard issue quark page-litter and INDUSTRIAL STRENGTH kerning)

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

i LOVE diacritical marks and get very het up if I find them missing! and also very bad that I don't know how some of the more esoteric E European ones work.

[anatol-merklich.livejournal.com]

i LOVE diacritical marks

Haha happy coincidence Lex, in your absence I supplied the ilx aussie Open thread with an Roll of Honour -- and took pains to supply as correct diacritics as I could find, eg Novak Đoković and Sūn Tiántián!

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

I am really impressed - I didn't even know about Chinese diacritical marks!

I think the BBC live scorer made some sort of comment about both male finalists having names which started with silent consonants, which made me goo AARRGGHH and NNNGGGHHH because it was so inaccurate. a) if you're not pronouncing the T in Tsonga you're pronouncing it wrong, and b) if anything it's the J in Djokovic which doesn't exist!

[anatol-merklich.livejournal.com]

I think the Chinese ones (of the pinyin transcription system) aren't really much observed, except when trying to be v v precise. (Compare to Japanese transcription: nitpicky maps etc often have Tōkyō to indicate long o's, while plain old Tokyo is more than enough for regular everyday use).

OF COURSE the T should be pronounced! >:|

[boyofbadgers.livejournal.com]

Haha, that reminds me of a tale as told by some random minor US indie celeb in the early nineties. A medium-sized RMUIC had wanted to buy a SWANS record via mail order, and not having a current account, couldn't send a cheque. Instead, he sent cash through the post, with a note saying 'Sorry Mr Gira, I know I shouldn't send cash through the post, but I am only medium-sized and hence don't have a chequebook'. In return, he received the following reply:

'If you know you shouldn't do something, DON'T DO IT.'

[giddyoldgoat.livejournal.com]

haha EXCELLENT (tho what exactly does RMUIC stand for?)

As w/ Swans - or SWANS - Boredoms are another group w/out a definite article who almost always get one appended anyway

On the cover of 'Monster Movie' they're 'The Can' but nowhere else, afaik

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

Random Minor Us Indie Celeb innit

if that note was from gira it would ALL be in caps surely?

[boyofbadgers.livejournal.com]

Heh, yes. My recollection of the details are very hazy.

[boyofbadgers.livejournal.com]

RMUIC = Random Minor US Indie Celeb