Self-Titled

Every word in a title should be capitalized. It’s an acceptable form of capitalization and it’s super easy to remember. I don’t understand why most people don’t do it that way. Otherwise you have to memorize all these exceptions for which words can and can’t be capitalized. Who can remember all of that? What about “in,” “to,” or “on?” It’s just not obvious.

It’s like putting a comma after the second-to-last item in a list. I remember being told in school that you can omit the comma in some situations, but not others, or you could always put it there and it would always be correct. I stopped listening after that, decided to just always put it there, and kept playing Oregon Trail or whatever. Easy.

I’ve started learning a theorem proving tool to help me with my thesis.  It’s called Coq, which has got to be the most unfortunate name I can think of.  I think the creators are French, and coq means cock, as in rooster, in French.  Why rooster?  I have no idea.  Why does anyone name anything what they do?

bind -> bound

find -> found

wind -> wound

Shouldn’t it be mind -> mound?

It strikes me as ironic that some have argued that the growing prevalence of Spanish in America, or at least the west and southern states, threaten American culture while there is little effort to teach immigrants English. NPR was reporting a little while ago that in New York City, it’s almost impossible to enroll in an English class because they’re so impacted. I believe they said conditions were similar in many other places.

I suspect most immigrants desire to acclimate to American culture, including learning the common language, to make a life here and broaden their prospects. It’s what I would do. Yet most immigrants work a lot, which causes conflicts with English class schedules, and those classes are heavily impacted. The incentive to learn English is there, but the opportunities aren’t. So they continue to speak their native languages.

Lots of foreigners learn English to take part in American culture and business. English is the unofficial language of international business and much of politics. We shouldn’t be worrying about the prevalence of English in America because it sells itself. The lower we set the threshold to integrating into American society, like offering more English classes, the faster it’ll happen.

If invalid, informal, and injustice are the opposites of valid, formal, and justice, then why does inflammable mean the same as flammable? Since English is my first language, I obviously prefer it to any other language, but damn, English sucks. One thing I’ve always appreciated about Spanish is that you can look at any word and know immediately how to pronounce it correctly.