My laugh for the morning. Thanks Carl
Denise
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On 10/4/13 9:00 PM, ""
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> Goodonya Carl,
> Painful it was..... :-)
>
> Yours in all things "green"
>
> John Harris
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> ----- Reply message -----
> From: "Carl Clifford" <>
> To: "JJ Harrison" <>
> Cc: "<>" <>
> Subject: [Birding-Aus] Information for inclusion in Night Parrot
> Date: Wed, Apr 10, 2013 16:17
>
>
> Iamsurprisetheyhavnttriedtodoawaywithpunctuationandspacesbetweenwordsaswellyou
> canstillunderstandwhatiswrittenprettywellthoughitmightbeapainafteracoupleofhun
> dredpagescarlclifford
>
> On 10/04/2013, at 13:56, "JJ Harrison" <> wrote:
>
>> Just as a matter of interest, there have been massive policy battles over
>> this issue on Wikipedia (Example:
>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Manual_of_Style/Archive_127#Cha
>> nge_proposal_with_regard_to_common_names). Basically those editing bird
>> related articles want the capitalisation, but nobody else does. I don't
>> think the capitalization convention is very common outside ornithology.
>> Newspapers or the ABC, for example, usually don't capitalise common names.
>>
>> --
>> JJ Harrison
>> ------------------------------
>>
>> Message: 17
>> Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2013 09:54:48 +1000
>> From: Carl Clifford <>
>> To: Dave Torr <>
>> Cc: Chris Watson <>,
>> "" <>
>> Subject: Re: [Birding-Aus] Information for inclusion in Night Parrot
>> flyer
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>> I have read several ornithological books lately which use lower case for
>> common names. Not surprising really, as many users of the English language
>> are so challenged by it, they would not know whether to insert, wear, or eat
>> a gerund, let alone when to capitalise a word. My theory is, that it is the
>> publishers trying to save on ink costs. Many a little makes a muckle.
>>
>> Carl Clifford
>>
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