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Can we please, pretty please with a cherry on top invent a new word for "public-facing official API that exposes some of a company's core services"? Because I get annoyed every time someone uses "APIs" to make general statements while assuming that specific narrow meaning.
Okay, how about SPI, Service Programming Interface?
In startups, we often tell each other that "the idea is useless", that is, startups are not about the technical details of the idea, they're about the human-to-human interaction of people and your business. This is also true about data. Startups are not about the data . A dozen companies did what Dropbox did, but there was only one Dropbox. Everybody did search, but there is only one Google, and so forth. Yes, people…
> ... along with Jacques essay ... Tiny, irrelevant nitpick. Assuming that Jacques Mattheij is using the French pronounciation of his first name, the possessive version of Jacques is Jacques's. This is because in French the final letter of most words is silent, and in English the possessive form of spoken nouns not ending in an audible "s" is rendered in text as 's. Phoenetically: zhahk -> zhahks Not: zhahks -> zhahk…
Thank you. I changed it to the Americanized form of possessive for words ending in s (pronounced or not) I think this could go either way, but I screwed it up no matter which choice an author might take.
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> ... along with Jacques essay ... Tiny, irrelevant nitpick. Assuming that Jacques Mattheij is using the French pronounciation of his first name, the possessive version of Jacques is Jacques's. This is because in French the final letter of most words is silent, and in English the possessive form of spoken nouns not ending in an audible "s" is rendered in text as 's. Phoenetically: zhahk -> zhahks Not: zhahks -> zhahk…
Dang, I'm surrounded by Jacqueses! (Jacuqi?) Thank you. I changed it to the Americanized form of possessive for words ending in s (pronounced or not) I think this could go either way, but I screwed it up no matter which choice an author might take.
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> Jacqueses! (Jacuqi?)
Jacqueses would be closest (-ii is a Latin pluralisation, Jacques comes from Jacob which is Hebrew).
There's an impedance mismatch here: English stores plurality in the word, French stores it in the sentence.
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> ... along with Jacques essay ... Tiny, irrelevant nitpick. Assuming that Jacques Mattheij is using the French pronounciation of his first name, the possessive version of Jacques is Jacques's. This is because in French the final letter of most words is silent, and in English the possessive form of spoken nouns not ending in an audible "s" is rendered in text as 's. Phoenetically: zhahk -> zhahks Not: zhahks -> zhahk…
Dang, I'm surrounded by Jacqueses! (Jacuqi?) Thank you. I changed it to the Americanized form of possessive for words ending in s (pronounced or not) I think this could go either way, but I screwed it up no matter which choice an author might take.
There is no fully agreed upon means make words ending s (x or z) into possessive - the below site gives example of Dumas' and Dumas's as valid.
My general response has been if it looks ok with just an ' leave it and move on. I can open my own shop with the left over apostrophes.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apostrophe#Nouns_ending_with_si...
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Dang, I'm surrounded by Jacqueses! (Jacuqi?) Thank you. I changed it to the Americanized form of possessive for words ending in s (pronounced or not) I think this could go either way, but I screwed it up no matter which choice an author might take.
Well in all fairness, outside of La Francophonie , "Jacques" is not a common name. And for English speakers it's just chock full of exciting traps. My favourite is putting 'c' and 'q' next to each other. In French that's a single sound; in English it says "new syllable, please! edit: > Jacqueses! (Jacuqi?) Jacqueses would be closest (-ii is a Latin pluralisation, Jacques comes from Jacob which is Hebrew). There's an…
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Dang, I'm surrounded by Jacqueses! (Jacuqi?) Thank you. I changed it to the Americanized form of possessive for words ending in s (pronounced or not) I think this could go either way, but I screwed it up no matter which choice an author might take.
Only HN could get from API to the Greengrocer's Apostrophe. There is no fully agreed upon means make words ending s (x or z) into possessive - the below site gives example of Dumas' and Dumas's as valid. My general response has been if it looks ok with just an ' leave it and move on. I can open my own shop with the left over apostrophes. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apostrophe#Nouns_ending_with_si...
Still, I prefer my rendition. The problem here is the incompatibility between the rules of pronounciation -- French permits silent letters to end a word, English in general does not. In translating to English you must choose either to honour the French or the English rules of pluralisation and possession.
Because I don't write many English sentences with de la, du or d', I figure that sticking to the English rule is the best move.
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Well in all fairness, outside of La Francophonie , "Jacques" is not a common name. And for English speakers it's just chock full of exciting traps. My favourite is putting 'c' and 'q' next to each other. In French that's a single sound; in English it says "new syllable, please! edit: > Jacqueses! (Jacuqi?) Jacqueses would be closest (-ii is a Latin pluralisation, Jacques comes from Jacob which is Hebrew). There's an…
Would a good translation of La Francophonie be "the French-speaking world"?
I don't see why "It is possible to create a competing business using that very same Api" is a potential warning sign. Anyone got some thoughts about that?
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Thanks, I'll fix those. Ok, fixed. Have an upvote :) & thanks again!
I think you may have broken something while doing this? I see this on your main page: --- The Api Paradox APR 11TH, 2013 – layout: post title: The API Paradox date: 2013-04-11 11:00 comments: true categories: api development startups programming permalink: /api-paradox --- And the page at http://jacquesmattheij.com/api-paradox still says "Api", not "API"?
Fixing, regenerating, deploying. eta 10 minutes, thank you very much!