[mb-style] Is french silly? :p (French capitalization rules)
Frederic Da Vitoria
davitofrg at gmail.com
Fri Jul 28 12:15:41 UTC 2006
Thanks for the aspirin :-)
Frankly; if there is only two of us wishing to change the rules,
please spare us the shame of a vote ;-)
2006/7/28, Mangled <viapanda at gmail.com>:
> Mangled now takes an aspirin and handles one also to davitof :D
>
> 2006/7/28, Frederic Da Vitoria <davitofrg at gmail.com>:
> > 2006/7/28, Mangled <viapanda at gmail.com>:
> > > > I have much respect for La Pléiade, but I happen to have a few books
> > > > from them. I took the first one, Dante's Divine Comedy, and here is
> > > > what I found: "Le passeur, Charon" (should have been "Le Passeur,
> > > > Charon") and later: "La tempête infernale". So your champions don't
> > > > seem to understand the rules. Or the rules are actually more complex.
> > >
> > > Heyhey :p
> > > Yes, they are.
> > > And La Pléiade also use different cap depending on where the title is
> > > printed (front cover, top of the page).
> > > I don't have (Dante) at hand, but I think I remember my "champions"
> > > didn't betrayed me with Kafka ;).
> > > Anyhow, La Pléiade is just an example amongst others.
> > > And as previously stated, it's a known fact there's no consensus
> > > (still it's my feeling our current set of rules is decently close to
> > > what I think is common practice).
> >
> > Well, maybe the rules vary depending on the original language? No,
> > just joking :-D
> >
> > --
> > Frederic Da Vitoria
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