[projectaon] Re: Errors: Quarter vs. quarter; Gate vs. gate
- From: "Thomas Wolmer" <angantyr@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: projectaon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2008 13:35:10 +0200
2008/10/17 Simon Osborne <outspaced@xxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> Hi
>
> I apologise for the hugeness of this list. My only excuse is that as a
> global issue that affects 12 separate books, it is best to post them all to
> get an overview and a consistent decision on them. I appreciate it will
> probably take some considerable time to respond to this, so I won't be
> posting any more Errors posts until this one has been fully dealt with.
>
> This one has bugged and confused me for some time: when is a city gate or a
> district named? Although the first problem occurs in Book 8, the confusion
> really starts in Book 9: The Cauldron of Fear. For completeness, I have also
> listed below a handful of issues that were originally rejected from 18dotd.
My opinion: Quarters and gates are proper nouns when there are
according to local conventions, not otherwise. Joe decides what is a
local convention and what is not. Therefore, only change when
something is inconsistent within a certain book and city, not
otherwise.
--
Thomas
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