Re: The Bank

Subject: Re: The Bank
From: "Meryl R. Cohen" <merylster -at- gmail -dot- com>
To: Peter Neilson <neilson -at- windstream -dot- net>, techwr-l List <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2022 15:36:15 -0500

A friend (this was in the dawn of time when computer time-sharing was a
thing) used to work for The Computer Company, programming in A Programming
Language. (APL) We used to call it the generic job.

Meryl

On Wednesday, January 19, 2022, Peter Neilson <neilson -at- windstream -dot- net>
wrote:

> I quite agree with Robert on this. Yes, it is a substitute for the full
> proper noun, but it remains a proper noun.
>
> The situation could have been far more crazy. Does anyone remember the
> former name of what is now The Eindhoven University of Technology
> (Technische Universiteit Eindhoven) which was founded as the Technische
> Hogeschool Eindhoven? It was abbreviated as THE. That was where Dijkstra
> and his buddies created the THE operating system in 1968, causing distress
> to English-language editorial staff everywhere. Well, not everywhere, but
> within certain pieces of academia, like the lab where I worked at the time.
>
> On 1/19/22 12:20 PM, Robert Lauriston wrote:
>
>> In this context, if you do use "The Bank," it's a proper noun, so
>> "The" is capitalized.
>>
>> Though as I said this sounds like is a job for a lawyer, not a tech
>> writer.
>>
>> On Tue, Jan 18, 2022 at 7:46 AM Monique Semp<monique -dot- semp -at- earthlink -dot- net>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> I'd suggest reading the latest Chicago Manual of Style Q&A
>>> ([1]https://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/qanda/latest.html) --
>>> question
>>> one is about an initial "the" before the name of a country or other
>>> such entity.
>>>
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References:
The Bank: From: John Posada
Re: The Bank: From: Monique Semp
Re: The Bank: From: Peter Neilson

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