Talk:The Twelve Days of Christmas

Draft status

We usually keep a task in draft status until there are five or so solutions, and no problems noticed with the task description. Thanks. --TimToady (talk) 18:36, 19 December 2013 (UTC)

nit picking capitals

The lyrics that this Rosetta Code tasks points to have two idiosyncrasies (which may be dependent upon one's viewpoint):

• The word french (French hen) should be capitalized.
• The word twelfth ("twelfth day of") in the last verse shouldn't be capitalized.

Should the programming examples include the two idiosyncrasies?

-- Gerard Schildberger (talk) 21:43, 19 December 2013 (UTC)

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Also, "The Twelve Days of Christmas is a religious song, that is say, there are deeply religious symbolisms in the lyrics.

• 1   True Love refers to (the Christian) God
• 2   Turtle Doves refers to the Old and New Testaments
• 3   French Hens refers to Faith, Hope and Charity, the Theological Virtues
• 4   Calling Birds refers to the 4 Gospels and/or the Four Evangelists
• 5   Golden Rings refers to the first 5 Books of the Old Testament, the "Pentateuch"
• 6   Geese A-laying refers to the 6 days of creation
• 7   Swans A-swimming refers to the 7 gifts of the Holy Spirit, the seven sacraments
• 8   Maids A-milking refers to the 8 beatitudes
• 9   Ladies Dancing refers to the 9 Fruits of the Holy Spirit
• 10   Lords A-leaping refers to the 10 commandments
• 11   Pipers Piping refers to the 11 faithful apostles
• 12   Drummers Drumming refers to the 12 points of doctrine in the Apostle's Creed

Because of this, point (1) means that True Love (as it refers to a deity), should be capitalized.

Also, the word Bible when referring to the Christian or Hebrew Bible (Torah, Koran, and others?), must be capitalized.   Because of this rule, Turtle Doves, Golden Rings, Calling Birds should also be capitalized.

Who'd ever thunk that this situation would even be brought up?

Capitalization based on religious beliefs seems very strange thing to be talked about on a programming Wiki.

This sure turned into a sticky wicket.

-- Gerard Schildberger (talk) 22:49, 19 December 2013 (UTC)