[mb-style] Is french silly? :p (French capitalization rules)

[Chris Bransden]

On 30/07/06, Frederic Da Vitoria <davitofrg at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hmm, I gather you don't have any argument, except that it "hurts your
> eyes".

well, isn't that the argument for any capitalisation rule? language is
a tricky subject and i doubt any has a nice set of rules agreed upon
by all who speak it. certainly not a lot of english people capilise
properly, but there is a (largely) recognised way of doing it, if you
care.

> In other words, you are so used to seeing things written that
> way that writing it in another way seems wrong to you. Ok I can
> understand this, although you will have to grant me that this is
> hardly an argument that can appeal to users who don't speak french.

we had the same problem at discogs.com - currently, Ever First Letter
Must Be Capitilised, which is great in that everyone can easily follow
it, but crap in that it just looks wrong to me (i'm English) - i mean
totally wrong! so i can entirely sympathise with Mangled here.

the way I see it, the rules should be such that those who know the
language are able to capitilise 'correctly', no matter how complex
those rules may be. however it should be anticipated that others will
just capitilise as they see fit, but they certainly shouldn't
're-crapify' the text once it's been fixed by someone with The
Knowledge. personally i don't think there's anything wrong with this,
and if you think about it, that's pretty much the entire MBz process
summed up :)

i mean, ultimately it would be easiest if WE JUST TYPED EVERYTHING IN
UPPERCASE but that's not ideal, is it?