Re: [Gimp-web] Clarification on site title

Marco Ciampa <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.video.gimp.web
Message-ID <20150820221724.GA10278@ciampix-A532>
On Thu, Aug 20, 2015 at 09:33:54PM +0000, Pat David wrote:
> drc mentioned on irc the other day that the title should read just "GNU
> Image Manipulation Program".
> 
> Our current site has this same text in the header, but the TITLE attribute
> for the page lists it as:
> 
> "GIMP - The GNU Image Manipulation Program"
> 
> Which one is semantically correct?  Failing a correctness test with
> semantics, which is the preferred title?  With/without "The"?

my 2 euro cent:

They always told me to not use the article, as it is incorrect for
acronyms.

For instance you do not say: the U.S.A. or the I.B.M.


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Marco Ciampa

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