brandneworld@feddit.de to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world · 1 year agoWhy uppercasing every single word in topics became so popular?message-squaremessage-square48fedilinkarrow-up193file-text
arrow-up193message-squareWhy uppercasing every single word in topics became so popular?brandneworld@feddit.de to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world · 1 year agomessage-square48fedilinkfile-text
Is it used to make headlines/posts more catchy? Does it have any logical explanation? What Is The Origin Of That?
minus-squareLetstakealook@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up15·1 year agoIn thinking OP may not be a native speaker or was massively failed by their educational system, i.e., American.
minus-squareJackbyDev@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12·edit-21 year 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-squarestarlinguk@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up7·edit-21 year agoA lot of newspapers don’t do it anymore either. It’s still used for book titles, though.
minus-squareScrollone@feddit.itlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·1 year 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-squareCanadian_Cabinet @lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up3·1 year agoSame for Spanish, barring any proper nouns
minus-squareScrollone@feddit.itlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 year agoOf course, yes! The original title of I promessi sposi was “Renzo e Lucia”, so capitalized proper nouns.
minus-squareDRUMS_@reddthat.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·1 year 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-squareZloubida@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 year 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.
In thinking OP may not be a native speaker or was massively failed by their educational system, i.e., American.
Interestingly Wikipedia itself does not use this for article titles.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Titles_of_works#Capital_letters
Fucking communists.
A lot of newspapers don’t do it anymore either.
It’s still used for book titles, though.
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.