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Re:Salmon Cannon Fires 40 Fish a Minute by thaumasiotes on Thursday August 14, 2014 @03:10AM (#8176383)
There appear to be some snags, though -- "Faraway" is lacking capitalization for the "away" bit, and, even more confusingly, "wolf" isn't capitalized either. Word boundaries aren't always obvious, but I feel certain that the "wolf" of "Ethiopian wolf" is an independent word.

So this string is easier to pronounce, but it's actually fairly tricky to communicate and error-check.

Re:Salmon Cannon Fires 40 Fish a Minute by Terr_ on Thursday August 14, 2014 @05:10AM (#8176638)
Actually, "faraway" is a whole word, used as an adjective as a location, e.g. "exotic faraway places".

I feel you wouldn't use it for actual locations, though, e.g. "it was too far away from me".

Re:Salmon Cannon Fires 40 Fish a Minute by thaumasiotes on Thursday August 14, 2014 @07:41AM (#8176979)
You'll note that I characterized "Ethiopianwolf" as being even more confusing than "Faraway", since "wolf" is definitely a separate word and it isn't clear whether "away" is or not. That unclarity still makes it difficult to communicate the capitalization in the case where capitalization matters.
Re:Salmon Cannon Fires 40 Fish a Minute by jeorgun on Thursday August 14, 2014 @03:42AM (#8176451)
Are they actually case-sensitive, though? Randomly capitalizing words seems to have no effect to me (unless iOS is sneakily autocorrecting it), so it's something of a moot point.
Re:Salmon Cannon Fires 40 Fish a Minute by thaumasiotes on Thursday August 14, 2014 @03:50AM (#8176478)
Capitalizing random letters in the URL didn't have any effect for me either. So I'm a little confused as to why they show the capitalization they do, but I withdraw the idea that there's a usability problem.