let's just use Schroedingers Katze as the fedora 19 release name

Dan Winship danw at redhat.com
Thu Mar 21 22:12:00 UTC 2013


On 03/21/2013 05:40 PM, Chris Murphy wrote:
> 
> On Mar 21, 2013, at 3:22 PM, Martin Sourada <martin.sourada at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Schroedinger Cat sounds much more natural then Cat of Schroedinger…
> 
> Except it's linguistically incorrect. Cat of Schroedinger is genitive case, as is Schroedinger's Cat. And although the alternative is uncommon in English, it's still correct. It's common in German. Schroedinger Cat is wrong. Schroedingers Cat is wrong.

The obvious solution is to have the name of the release be the
superposition of "Schrödinger's Cat" and "Schrodingers Cat", and hope
that the waveform collapses to the former version when it is observed on
the wiki and in emails, but to the latter version when it is observed in
files that are parsed programmatically.

-- Dan



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