# SDMB Nomenclative Philosophy
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-nomenclative-philosophy/77995
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [August 24, 2001, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-nomenclative-philosophy/77995 "2001-08-24T22:02:52Z")
**Posts on this page:** 17
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### Author:  [@tavalla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tavalla)
#### Post date: [August 25, 2001, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-nomenclative-philosophy/77995/41 "2001-08-25T15:53:02Z")
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\*Originally posted by Smeghead \*
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> Gosh, now I’m thinking I might have even seen an Arthur Dent.\*\*
There is a **dentarthurdent** , who obviously subscribes to the aforementioned understated elegance of the no-caps, no-spaces theory.
You can guess my thinking on the matter. 😃
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### Author:  [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)
#### Post date: [August 25, 2001, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-nomenclative-philosophy/77995/42 "2001-08-25T17:57:54Z")
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> \*\*Now a real UserName should start with a Capital and have another later on, perHaps at the start of the seCond sylable \*\*
This is, of course, the correct procedure, except you forgot to put a number at the end.
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### Author:  [@AbbySthrnAccent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AbbySthrnAccent)
#### Post date: [August 25, 2001, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-nomenclative-philosophy/77995/43 "2001-08-25T18:14:16Z")
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> > \*\*Now a real UserName should start with a Capital and have another later on, perHaps at the start of the seCond sylable \*\*
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> This is, of course, the correct procedure, except you forgot to put a number at the end. \*\*
Clearly this is the more genteel. Numbers optional.
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### Author:  [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)
#### Post date: [August 26, 2001, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-nomenclative-philosophy/77995/44 "2001-08-26T00:08:00Z")
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> \*Originally posted by AbbySthrnAccent \*
> \*\*Clearly this is the more genteel. Numbers optional. \*\*
Decidedly more genteel…
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### Author:  [@dwyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dwyr)
#### Post date: [August 26, 2001, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-nomenclative-philosophy/77995/45 "2001-08-26T00:17:15Z")
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> > > > Undoubtedly so. Understated. Elegant. \*\*
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ditto 😃
[sub]How long can these be anyway?[/sub]
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### Author:  [@pesch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pesch)
#### Post date: [August 26, 2001, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-nomenclative-philosophy/77995/46 "2001-08-26T00:21:48Z")
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> [sub]How long can these be anyway?[/sub] \*\*
I dunno, but it better start getting funny real quick or the mods are gonna nail it up.
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### Author:  [@iampunha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iampunha)
#### Post date: [August 26, 2001, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-nomenclative-philosophy/77995/47 "2001-08-26T00:40:59Z")
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Certainly. Positively. Emphatically.
Agreed.
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### Author:  [@Mighty\_Maximino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mighty_Maximino)
#### Post date: [August 26, 2001, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-nomenclative-philosophy/77995/48 "2001-08-26T00:58:16Z")
**Cajun Man** and horde have it right, I think.
(Although, in my case, plain Maximino was taken. I like my handle because it’s allitaricious and puts me in good company in this thread, but I am not actually especially mighty.)
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### Author:  [@ITR\_champion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ITR_champion)
#### Post date: [August 26, 2001, 5:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-nomenclative-philosophy/77995/49 "2001-08-26T05:15:41Z")
While Sue Duhnym, Captain Amazing, Spiritus Mundi, Jack Batty, Cajun Man, Wicked Blue, Darwin’s Finch, Some Guy, and Terminus Est are correct about the spacing, they all forgot that the ENTIRE first word should be capitalized. Now guys, we are supposed to be _fighting_ ignorance here, not spreading it. 😉
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### Author:  [@Atreyu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atreyu)
#### Post date: [August 26, 2001, 5:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-nomenclative-philosophy/77995/50 "2001-08-26T05:43:04Z")
You’re all wrong.
😃
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### Author:  [@Chez\_Guevara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chez_Guevara)
#### Post date: [August 26, 2001, 12:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-nomenclative-philosophy/77995/51 "2001-08-26T12:29:19Z")
Well, some fascinating opinions there.
Harking back to the original post, allow me to hazard a few guesses.
Underscore\_People such as **bean\_shadow** really wanted to be Hyphen-People, but Hyphen-People are not allowed in here. Thus **bean-shadow** became **bean\_shadow**.
Space People such as **Cajun Man** have it right. They lurked awhile before registering and saw that spaces were good.
JoinedUpWordPeople like **Weirddave** are either Weird or they didn’t lurk long enough to discover that Space People were admitted. Note the lack of a capital ‘D’ in dave. That’s definitely Weird.
lowercasepeople like **iampunha** like to use small letters because they don’t have to chop and change between CaSeS.
Unlike **TheLoadedDog** , I think that **AbbySthrnAccent** and **FairyChatMom** knew about spaces but decided not to use them. I like that.
There are a few of Dopers who worry me, as follows:
**waterj2**
**ShibbOleth**
**ITR champion**
**dwyr** (not one vowel!)
These are completely non-standard and the Moderator should do something about them immediately.
The most memorable and efficient names are those which employ a Capital Letter at the beginning and have exactly 11 characters in one word. I don’t have a cite for this so my word will have suffice.
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### Author:  [@dwyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dwyr)
#### Post date: [August 27, 2001, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-nomenclative-philosophy/77995/52 "2001-08-27T00:10:43Z")
I worry someone… cool. 😃
hehehehehe…
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### Author:  [@dwyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dwyr)
#### Post date: [August 27, 2001, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-nomenclative-philosophy/77995/53 "2001-08-27T00:46:46Z")
Shoot, I was so overcome with elation at being noticed that I forgot to add this.
A, E, I, O, U and sometimes Y. 🙂
(Haven’t used that since grade school.)
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### Author:  [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)
#### Post date: [August 27, 2001, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-nomenclative-philosophy/77995/54 "2001-08-27T01:06:00Z")
Atreyu’s almost right.
Literary (and movie) names are OK, but mythological and legendary names are the Ideal.
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### Author:  [@Ruby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ruby)
#### Post date: [August 27, 2001, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-nomenclative-philosophy/77995/55 "2001-08-27T03:06:55Z")
I’m an anal-retentive capitalizer, myself. 😉
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### Author:  [@Dragonblink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dragonblink)
#### Post date: [August 27, 2001, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-nomenclative-philosophy/77995/56 "2001-08-27T03:30:46Z")
Can I put in a vote for capitalized compound words that are nonetheless incomprehensible?
And do I get brownie points for shyly suggesting that sometimes ‘w’ functions as a vowel?
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### Author:  [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)
#### Post date: [August 27, 2001, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-nomenclative-philosophy/77995/57 "2001-08-27T03:53:38Z")
And I add a vote for Capitalised Compounds Of Common Words That Have Meaning Outside The Board As Well As In… 🙂
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