But the real reason I bring this up is not so much for the lack of standardization, but that 2/3 of these are not correct.
Yes, I know I just said there's no consensus on this, but there is a short list of generally accepted demonyms. Those are:
1. Salvadoran
2. Salvadorean
3. Salvadorian
Note the lack of "El".
All too often, though, the magazine seems to land on "El Salvadorian".
But if we query Cambridge and Merriam-Webster for Bitcoin Magazine's apparent demonym of choice, we come up dry.
I might have even let this slide, but as you all probably know, El Salvador has been coming up A LOT in the Bitcoin world lately. Not only should we expect a publication to have standards on relevant topics, but we should also expect those standards to be correct.
Imagine if a paper called British citizens "United Kingdomers"or called the Danish "Denmarkians". We would know what they meant, but we would also know these are not the correct words.
Today, we have conflicting pronouns. And not in the culture war/gender sense, but rather 2nd vs 3rd person. Is this sentence talking to or about boomers? The world may never know.
Today we're taking issue with stylized brand names. Specifically, "ego death capital".
At first glance, you might think this is a typo. I did. While I'm aware of the company, I've only ever read about it news publications. Until I visited theor site today, I had no idea they stylized their company name in all lower case letter.
This isn't unusual. Plenty of brands do this. Adidas perhaps being chief among them.
But the issue here is Bitcoin Magazine's lack of standards and style guide.
Two articles earlier this year capitalized the firm's name as one would expect with a proper noun.
Meanwhile, this article back in December used the lower case stylized version:
Now, obviously the editors at Bitcoin Magazine can choose whichever version they want. The issue is consistency. Inconsistent standards like this can be mistaken for, well, mistakes. And if they've overlooked this, then what else have they overlooked? Is this a reliable publication?
