Posted on 04/04/2016 8:54:43 PM PDT by Swordmaker
The folks responsible for the entries in the Associated Press Stylebook have announced that the word “Internet” will no longer be uppercased, thus breaking my heart and making some of our writers very happy.
The AP Stylebook, which many newspapers and websites (one word? really?) use to guide their style efforts, defines Internet as “a decentralized, worldwide network of computers that can communicate with each other.” It’s a pretty big definition and has warranted the glory of a capital I. But no more. And that’s not all. The AP Stylebook has also decided to lowercase “Web.”
The changes, which were not announced on April Fools’ Day, are to take effect on June 1 when the 2016 edition of the style guide is released. Then, and only then, will “Internet” join other inexplicable changes the style guide has made in the recent past, including “more than” versus “over” and “underway” versus “under way,” both of which still vex me.
At least it still thinks “literally” means literally and not “figuratively.”
UB, I am just a housewife, but I do think you have this calculation incorrect. Please correct me if I am not correct in my thinking, okay? Deal?
If you are using vowels as numbers, wouldn’t your caculation be: 3nt2rn2t.
The number 1 is the third vowel; the number 2 is the second vowel; and the number 5 is the fifth vowel.
I am trying to figure your word out. “Antirnitu?”
Are you using a different coding?
LOv2s!
Oops!
Smarty pants that I think I am, that last word would be: L4v2s.
rotflmao!!!
It was just my effort at being young and hip.
I guess I failed, huh?
:-p
How gives a Crap? With yes, a capital C!
My Secret Decoder Ring just might have gone in the same direction as my Slide Rule. The Internet is awesome, though!
The “Internet” will always be capped IMHO!
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