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

[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! >:|