Re: Patch for notification pref help, notification subject line

> >I think "PageChange Notification" and "PagechangeNotification" are both 
> >not normal English. They would not be published in a newspaper. They are 
> >multiple words run together with unusual capitalization. 
> 
> Well, this is wiki and not a newspaper.
> Users do strange - almost german :) -  things with words in wikis. Since 
> this is just about a subject line, and not about webpage usability for 
> random users, I don't think that "normal english" would overrule 
> "technical english".
> 
> >Also, simple English favors short words. "changed" is 2 syllables, 
> >"notification" is 5 syllables, so I am trying to avoid that word.
> 
> Sure.

How about "Page Change Notice" (or "PageChangeNotice" or whatever)? A
"notice" may also be called a "notification," but that's a bit of a bastard
word mostly used on envelopes falsely suggesting that you've won some
million-dollar contest. When the law requires a public statment be published
in a newspaper, the standard heading is "Public Notice", _not_
"Notification."

What's at issue here is really the Norman Invasion, and the injection of
pretentious Latinate vocabulary among the fine Germanic grunts previously
practiced by the English ... in any case "notification" is a bullshit
(pardon my Anglo-Saxon) word in most of its uses. Running it together like
German is normal computer-speak since at least WordStar, but going French
with it...? ; >

Whit


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