[asterisk-biz] Capitalisation in English writing from Indian subcontinent

[Kevin Smith]

Hello Alex Sir,

I have seen your comment on various websites but I am sorry to tell you that if you will review your own website "http://www.evaristesys.com/".There are many spelling mistakes in content of home page of websites,so its better to improve ourself every time and not to waste time to comment on others.

I hope you will not mind my comment and improve yourself.



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From: Alex Balashov <abalashov at evaristesys.com>
To: Commercial and Business-Oriented Asterisk Discussion <asterisk-biz at lists.digium.com>
Sent: Thu, October 8, 2009 1:25:56 PM
Subject: [asterisk-biz] Capitalisation in English writing from Indian subcontinent

This recent discussion got me wondering again about something which has 
perplexed me for a while:  the unusual (from an Anglo-American 
perspective) capitalisation patterns - chiefly of nouns - that seem to 
consistently occur in technical and commercial copy we see that is 
authored in India or Pakistan, presumably by speakers of the various 
native English adaptations and/or dialects.  To a lesser but nontrivial 
extent, I've also seen this from the Middle East.

I suppose, in the interest of political correctness, that I ought to 
preface this inquiry with the disclaimer that this is not intended to 
offend anyone.  I realise I am quite known to make jabs from time to 
time at various people's web sites and solicitations for poor 
proofreading, bad spelling and grammar, etc. where it is obvious (to me, 
anyway) that the cause is laziness and inattention rather than something 
like a genuine struggle with a foreign language.

In this case, my interest is purely academic;  I wouldn't waste time 
writing this missive if it weren't.  There are far more economical and 
brief ways to call someone specific out for sloppiness, and non-native 
English speakers have no kind of monopoly on sloppiness anyway.

All this to say: if you happen to be a non-native English speaker from 
the aforementioned regions, don't bristle -- please take the question in 
the spirit in which it's intended.

Here are some examples of what I am referring to: