@[email protected] to No Stupid [email protected] • 2 years agoWhy uppercasing every single word in topics became so popular?message-square41fedilinkarrow-up193
arrow-up193message-squareWhy uppercasing every single word in topics became so popular?@[email protected] to No Stupid [email protected] • 2 years agomessage-square41fedilink
Is it used to make headlines/posts more catchy? Does it have any logical explanation? What Is The Origin Of That?
minus-squareJackbyDevlinkfedilinkEnglish12•edit-22 years agoInterestingly Wikipedia itself does not use this for article titles. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Titles_of_works#Capital_letters
minus-squarestarlinguklinkfedilink8•edit-22 years agoA lot of newspapers don’t do it anymore either. It’s still used for book titles, though.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink15•2 years agoIn thinking OP may not be a native speaker or was massively failed by their educational system, i.e., American.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink4•2 years agoOP is probably not English. Other languages have different rules. For example, in Italian book titles only have the first word capitalized, e.g.: “I promessi sposi”
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink1•2 years agoOf course, yes! The original title of I promessi sposi was “Renzo e Lucia”, so capitalized proper nouns.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink2•2 years agoYes, but how is that not a legitimate explanation. There’s enough Americans on lemmy to see a few posts with English title capitalization.
minus-squareZloubidalinkfedilink1•2 years agoIn French, it’s only the first word and the first noun or verb (Le grand Sommeil). But almost nobody respects this rule anymore.
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Fucking capitalists.
Oh, you.
Interestingly Wikipedia itself does not use this for article titles.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Titles_of_works#Capital_letters
A lot of newspapers don’t do it anymore either.
It’s still used for book titles, though.
Fucking communists.
In thinking OP may not be a native speaker or was massively failed by their educational system, i.e., American.
OP is probably not English. Other languages have different rules.
For example, in Italian book titles only have the first word capitalized, e.g.: “I promessi sposi”
Same for Spanish, barring any proper nouns
Of course, yes! The original title of I promessi sposi was “Renzo e Lucia”, so capitalized proper nouns.
Yes, but how is that not a legitimate explanation. There’s enough Americans on lemmy to see a few posts with English title capitalization.
In French, it’s only the first word and the first noun or verb (Le grand Sommeil). But almost nobody respects this rule anymore.