@[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-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]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-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-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.
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”
Yes, but how is that not a legitimate explanation. There’s enough Americans on lemmy to see a few posts with English title capitalization.
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.
In French, it’s only the first word and the first noun or verb (Le grand Sommeil). But almost nobody respects this rule anymore.