Progressive Review, 2000 - The Review intends to resist as
long as possible the unruly and repugnant trend towards Germanization
and cyberization of the English language. If for no other reason than it
makes spell-checking more tedious, TPR will continue to frown upon
compound words and excessive capitalization (especially in the middle of
words).
TPR believes, as a rule, that only something one might
expect find in a telephone book, on a door or a map, or in a
bibliography or discography, should be capitalized and that proper
spacing must be maintained or we
willsoonfindourselvesreadingsomethinglikethis.
Even at the risk
of offending corporate lawyers and public relations departments TPR
will, wherever possible, translate such words back into English. It will
also continue to regard the ugly and ubiquitous appendage known as "dot
com" as the moral equivalent of "Inc." or "Ph.D." or "Esq." and will
excise it for other than ironic purposes.
