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Re: autoFAQpost /general/~u.can_i_use_lugnet_name_or_logo.en.faq
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Fri, 16 Jul 1999 18:47:14 GMT
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In lugnet.faq, mattdm@mattdm.org (Matthew Miller) writes:
> Todd Lehman <lehman@javanet.com> wrote:
> > It's an acronym (well, a pseudo-acronym): [L]EGO [U]sers [G]roup [NET]work
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> So how do you feel about "LUGnet"?
It does place the syllabic emphasis correctly, but it still looks very wrong
to me, and I think it leads to people writing all sorts of other mis-
capitalizations. I've seen all of these, for example:
LUGNet
LugNet
LugNET
and I think many of those came from people seeing other people write it with
some mid-word capitalization thing and not being able to remember exactly
how it was supposed to be capitalized.
I'm not bothered much if it's written like that in a newspost, but whenever
I see it turn up on a web page like that in anything that's not all caps, I
tend to write the author of the page and ask them to correct the
capitalization. And it always appears on the lugnet.com website either in
all caps (in natural-language text) or all lowercase (in geek-stuff like
URLs and newsgroup names).
Anyway, the pronunciation of LUGNET is not:
'lug-'net (with equal emphasis on both syllables, as in "lug nut" or
"dragnet").
And it's not:
lug-'net (with emphasis on second syllable, as in "brunet").
It is:
lug'-net (with emphasis on first syllable, as in "magnet")
(Of course, the phonemes in the "net" portion of "magnet" are different,
since the "e" is a silent schwa-e in "magnet" and the "e" in LUGNET is a
short-e just like the plain word "net.")
Another problem with LUGnet is that LUGNet is actually technically closer
to the right thing: LUGNet breaks apart visually into L U G Net, while
LUGnet breaks apart visually into L U Gnet. :-(
--Todd
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