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by tonyg 506 days ago
Yeah I struggle with "Preserve" vs "Preserves" sometimes. Was there something in particular that struck you as unfortunate, though?
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"Preserves <something>", for example "Preserves data", reads like "it preserves data". Probably less so in the middle of a sentence, due to the uppercasing, but in the TOC it reads like bullet points enumerating what is preserved.
Thank you! I wonder if something a bit contrived such as small-caps could help. I'll experiment.
Putting Preserves in italics would be an alternative.

The name nevertheless feels awkward to me, also in spoken conversation. A made-up word like maybe “Pres” or “Edal” (from “expressive data language”) would work better IMO.