Re: Not about coffee and not about espresso

From: Brian {Hamilton Kelly} (bhk_at_dsl.co.uk)
Date: 06/21/04 

Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2004 11:57:14 +0100 (BST)

On Saturday, in article <40D4A8C4.3D7F@worldnet.att.net>
     grammatim@worldnet.att.net "Peter T. Daniels" wrote:

> The question was not "What ways might he have done it?" but "How did he
> do it?"

I believe I mentioned before that I'd been using the braces from roughly
the time that I first started using both TeX and e-mail, namely the early
1980s. Before that date, I didn't need to communicate my name via a
computer. (Well, it did appear, within comments, in the source code of
my programs: then usually as B. HAMILTON KELLY [since the computers in
question didn't have lower-case].)

Before that date, if I was completing any sort of form, I would enter the
"Hamilton Kelly" in the "Surname" box, and either "Brian" or "B" in the
forename/initials box. In the case of [handwritten] correspondence, I'd
print "Brian HAMILTON KELLY" under my signature, where the recipient
could be expected to be unfamiliar with my name. After I started using a
computer to write my letters, I'd use caps-and-small-caps for the words
of my surname, with lower-case, except for the initial letter, for my
forename.

Telephonically, I'd always have to resort to the "double-barrelled,
without a hyphen" (unless, of course, I was asked separately for my
surname). 

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