When thebiglebow.ski is blocked by Facebook

> He immediately gets angry at Facebook messing up his name. The company changes his name to ‘Hans De Zwart’, with a capitalized D. A small annoyance, but for De Zwart it signifies something bigger: “It is the arrogance of a giant American corporation which considers the correct spelling of the names of millions of Dutch people an edge case.”

I am really confused. I am assuming the correct spelling is "de Zwart" ... since a human is writing this article, it shouldn't have been too hard for him to use the correct spelling or check the work of any computer involved in publishing the piece.

Re: When thebiglebow.ski is blocked by Facebook

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Post by sneak » Tue, Oct 13, 2020, 9:26 AM UTC

the-dude wrote: post #2

Prior restraint!

uhh, EXCUSE ME MISS

Re: When thebiglebow.ski is blocked by Facebook

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Post by _-___________-_ » Tue, Oct 13, 2020, 9:28 AM UTC

nanis wrote: post #5

Looking at > He immediately gets angry at Facebook messing up his name. The company changes his name to ‘Hans De Zwart’, with a capitalized D. A small annoyance, but for De Zwart it signifies something bigger: “It is the arrogance of a giant American corporation which considers the correct spelling of the names of millions of Dutch people an edge case.” I am really confused. I am assuming the correct spelling is "de…

It was actually translated into English by De Zwart himself. I believe that proper capitalisation of Dutch names with 'de' is to keep the 'd' lowercase if stating the full name (Hans de Zwart), but to capitalise the 'd' if stating just the last name (De Zwart), which the article seems to do consistently (except when quoting Facebook's mangling of the name).

Re: When thebiglebow.ski is blocked by Facebook

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Post by butokai » Tue, Oct 13, 2020, 9:28 AM UTC

nanis wrote: post #5

Looking at > He immediately gets angry at Facebook messing up his name. The company changes his name to ‘Hans De Zwart’, with a capitalized D. A small annoyance, but for De Zwart it signifies something bigger: “It is the arrogance of a giant American corporation which considers the correct spelling of the names of millions of Dutch people an edge case.” I am really confused. I am assuming the correct spelling is "de…

I was under the same impression, until I reached the end of the article and noticed first the return to "de", and second that the author is de Zwart himself

Re: When thebiglebow.ski is blocked by Facebook

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Post by _-___________-_ » Tue, Oct 13, 2020, 9:28 AM UTC

instagraham wrote: post #4

Isn't it a similar situation with Twitter blue ticks now? You have to know someone at Twitter to get them?

What does that have to do with the article?

Re: When thebiglebow.ski is blocked by Facebook

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Post by Deukhoofd » Tue, Oct 13, 2020, 9:37 AM UTC

nanis wrote: post #5

Looking at > He immediately gets angry at Facebook messing up his name. The company changes his name to ‘Hans De Zwart’, with a capitalized D. A small annoyance, but for De Zwart it signifies something bigger: “It is the arrogance of a giant American corporation which considers the correct spelling of the names of millions of Dutch people an edge case.” I am really confused. I am assuming the correct spelling is "de…

If you write just the last name, it'd be "De Zwart". If you write the full name it's "Hans de Zwart".

The first character of the name is capitalized. Just a Dutch grammar quirk.